Experiments

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• Strand bias in complementary single-nucleotide polymorphisms of transcribed human sequences: evidence for functional effects of synonymous polymorphisms.

  PMID 16916449 · PMC1559705 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genome-wide, both intronic SNPs (iSNPs) and FFD SNPs show a significant excess of A→G over complementary T→C substitutions, confirming prior transcription-coupled repair (TCR) findings from a single chromosome 7 region.

  autosomal intronic chimpanzee genes comparative human-chimpanzee background

• Discovery of human inversion polymorphisms by comparative analysis of human and chimpanzee DNA sequence assemblies.

  PMID 16254605 · PMC1270012 · PLoS genetics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Comparative net alignment of human and chimpanzee genome assemblies identifies 1,576 putative inverted regions covering more than 154 Mb of DNA

  build chimpanzee unrelated ceph comparative three-color pcr

• 'Chumanzee' evolution: the urge to diverge and merge.

  PMID 17129363 · PMC1794591 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Human-chimpanzee divergence was not a simple clean split; evidence suggests hybridization continued after an initial split.

  chimpanzee rheboon comparative artificial cytogenetic

• Analysis of chimpanzee history based on genome sequence alignments.

  PMID 18421364 · PMC2278377 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Bonobos and common chimpanzees separated approximately 1.29 million years ago

  bonobo bonobos chimpanzee simulated shotgun sequenom principal

• Evola: Ortholog database of all human genes in H-InvDB with manual curation of phylogenetic trees.

  PMID 17982176 · PMC2238928 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Evola combines genome synteny-based computational ortholog detection with manual curation of phylogenetic trees by experts to yield more reliable orthologs than automated pairwise methods

  genome h-invdb gene sets genome transcript-to-genome coding

• A macaque's-eye view of human insertions and deletions: differences in mechanisms.

  PMID 17941704 · PMC1976337 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Insertion and deletion rates are differentially associated with replication- versus recombination-related genomic features, indicating the two mutation types are driven in part by distinct mechanisms

  chimpanzee non-overlapping 1-mb 100-kb comparative regression kruskal-wallis

• Sequence context affects the rate of short insertions and deletions in flies and primates.

  PMID 18291026 · PMC2374710 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The rate of insertion or deletion of specific lengths can vary by more than 100-fold depending on the surrounding sequence context

  chimpanzee simulans chimp primate comparative direct nucleotide

• Identification, characterization and comparative genomics of chimpanzee endogenous retroviruses.

  PMID 16805923 · PMC1779541 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The chimpanzee genome contains at least 42 separate families of endogenous retroviruses, 9 newly identified

  chimpanzee domains genomic hg16 genome-wide sequence ltr-ltr

• Comparative analysis of cancer genes in the human and chimpanzee genomes.

  PMID 16438707 · PMC1382208 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  All 333 examined human cancer genes have intact, highly conserved orthologs in the chimpanzee genome (99.38% protein identity).

  chimpanzee non-human cancer comparative pcr targeted

• Fast-evolving noncoding sequences in the human genome.

  PMID 17578567 · PMC2394770 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  1,356 conserved noncoding sequences show human-specific accelerated substitution rates (ANC sequences) relative to chimpanzee

  chimpanzee genome hapmap comparative genomic segmental

• Widespread ultraconservation divergence in primates.

  PMID 18492662 · PMC2464743 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  The number of UCEs has decreased throughout primate evolution, from ~1,000 in ancestral primates to 635 in modern humans.

  hg18 genome genes computed comparative snp gene

• Evolution of genomic sequence inhomogeneity at mid-range scales.

  PMID 19891785 · PMC2779198 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  MRI regions have comparable levels of de novo mutations to control genomic sequences with average base composition.

  chimpanzee population genome whole-genome snp indel

• INDELSCAN: a web server for comparative identification of species-specific and non-species-specific insertion/deletion events.

  PMID 17517762 · PMC1933116 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Pair-wise sequence alignment-based indel identification lacks discrimination of species specificity and cannot distinguish insertions from deletions.

  chromosomes hg18 ucsc sequence pair-wise

• Getting positive about selection.

  PMID 12914654 · PMC193638 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Purifying selection is the predominant form of molecular evolution, preserving fitness by eliminating deleterious mutations, while positive selection is rare but critical for adaptation.

  genome chimpanzee human-chimpanzee humans whole-genome ratio maximum-likelihood

• Accelerated evolution of the ASPM gene controlling brain size begins prior to human brain expansion.

  PMID 15045028 · PMC374243 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The ASPM gene shows accelerated (positively selected) evolution in the African hominoid clade, and this acceleration precedes hominid brain expansion by several million years.

  chimpanzee retrofitted primate aspm tar restriction genomic

• Phylogenomic approaches to common problems encountered in the analysis of low copy repeats: the sulfotransferase 1A gene family example.

  PMID 15752422 · PMC555591 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A previously unidentified fourth human SULT1A gene (SULT1A4) exists on chromosome 16 and is transcriptionally active

  genome chimpanzee sult1a3 est blast-like comparative pairwise

• Recurring genomic breaks in independent lineages support genomic fragility.

  PMID 17090315 · PMC1636669 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  The propensity of a chromosomal region to break is significantly correlated among independent lineages, even after accounting for covariates like region length and functional class.

  hg17 genome computationally comparative marker segmental

• Evolution of the NANOG pseudogene family in the human and chimpanzee genomes.

  PMID 16469101 · PMC1457002 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The NANOG gene and all pseudogenes except NANOGP8 occupy orthologous chromosomal positions in the chimpanzee genome, indicating they originated before the human-chimpanzee divergence.

  chimpanzee megablast pcr flanking-sequence

• The genomic distribution of intraspecific and interspecific sequence divergence of human segmental duplications relative to human/chimpanzee chromosomal rearrangements.

  PMID 18699995 · PMC2542386 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Some relatively recent (young) SDs accumulate in regions homologous to chromosomal inversions that occurred in the sister lineage

  genome sds chimpanzee colinear comparative interspecific genomic

• Highly individual methylation patterns of alternative glucocorticoid receptor promoters suggest individualized epigenetic regulatory mechanisms.

  PMID 19004867 · PMC2602793 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation patterns of the five GR promoters activated in PBMCs are highly variable between individuals.

  chromosome genomic pbmc multi-species phylogenetic bisulphite