How many copies of the gene - (Apr/02/2010 )
Hi,
I have a doubt! Is there a way to know how many copies of a specific gene I have in the genome?
I'd like to know the number of copies of my gene of interest in the genome.
Thanks
teka
-teka-
Assuming you mean paralogs (i.e. gene duplication events in the same organism, thus the having the same or very closely related DNA), you could do a Southern blot to find out how many copies there are. If the genome is sequenced, you could just BLAST the sequence of the gene against the genome sequence.
-HomeBrew-