Genome-Based Analysis of the Nonhuman Primate Macaca Fascicularis As a Model for Drug Safety Assessment
Downloaded from genome.cshlp.org on October 8, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Resource Genome-based analysis of the nonhuman primate Macaca fascicularis as a model for drug safety assessment Martin Ebeling,1 Erich Ku¨ng,2 Angela See,3 Clemens Broger,4 Guido Steiner,1 Marco Berrera,1 Tobias Heckel,2 Leonardo Iniguez,3 Thomas Albert,3 Roland Schmucki,1 Hermann Biller,4 Thomas Singer,2 and Ulrich Certa2,5 1Translational Research Sciences, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), 4070 Basel, Switzerland; 2Global Non-clinical Safety, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), 4070 Basel, Switzerland; 3Roche NimbleGen, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA; 4Research Informatics, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), 4070 Basel, Switzerland The long-tailed macaque, also referred to as cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis), is one of the most important nonhuman primate animal models in basic and applied biomedical research. To improve the predictive power of primate experiments for humans, we determined the genome sequence of a Macaca fascicularis female of Mauritian origin using a whole-genome shotgun sequencing approach. We applied a template switch strategy that uses either the rhesus or the human genome to assemble sequence reads. The sixfold sequence coverage of the draft genome sequence enabled dis- covery of about 2.1 million potential single-nucleotide polymorphisms based on occurrence of a dimorphic nucleotide at a given position in the genome sequence. Homology-based annotation allowed us to identify 17,387 orthologs of human protein-coding genes in the M.
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