Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-19
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>Dear Iswar,
>
>We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 41st
>(Pittsburgh) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
>I am writing in connection with your abstract:
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>'The rocky gene regulates cell size in vivo and encodes
>the homolog of the human TSC1 (Tuberous Sclerosis Complex 1)
>tumor-suppressor gene.'
>
>You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, rocky. Do you have a map
>location for rocky? This is a data class we like to track, if
>possible.
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>We already know of a fly homologue of human TSC1, called Tsc1
>(FBgn0026317, maps to 95E4--95E5). Do you know that rocky is distinct
>from Tsc1?
>
rocky mutations are loss of function alleles of the Tsc1 gene.
Iswar Hariharan
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Building 149, 13th Street
Charlestown MA 02129, USA