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In 1999, plant scientists studying PTGS provided a crucial clue when they detected small (approximately 25 nucleotide-long) RNAs corresponding to silenced target genes in transgenic plants (Hamilton and Baulcombe 1999).
The RNA got to the liver, silenced Fas, and protected the mice from hepatitis.
While identifying individual differentially expressed genes attracts most of the interest, a genome wide transcriptome map may not only provide a tool to identify candidate genes that are over-expressed or silenced in certain disease tissue, but may also help to understand the structure and organization of the genome.
Both L91 and E82 are silenced posttranscriptionally (PTGS) and both are representative for a larger group of loci with similar transgene silencing characteristics.
For instance, at the b1 locus, one specific allele can switch spontaneously from a non-paramutagenic, transcriptionally active, state to a paramutagenic, transcriptionally silenced, state [ 23 ] . Whether the same is true for trans-silencing is not well established.