“…In addition, we were not able to assign genes LOX, GRL, PDEA, HK3, NPM1, CANX, and FGFR4, previously mapped to 5q31-qter, to this contig. 23,37,[39][40][41][42] This might be due to the fact that LOX (location given as 5q23.3-5q31.2), 39 GRL (5q22-5q35), 23 and PDEA (5q31.2-5q34) 40 lie proximal to our contig and HK3 (5q35.2), 37 NPM1 (5q35), 41 CANX (5q35), 42 and FGFR4 (5q22-5q35) 23 are located distal to or within the gap of our contig. BLAST homology searches identified the two ESTs EST304953 and U20185 (Whitehead Institute/MIT Centre for Genome Research) as portions of known genes.…”