Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Ultraconserved coding regions outside the homeobox of mammalian Hox genes.

  PMID 18816392 · PMC2566984 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Ultraconserved coding regions (UCRs, ≥120 nt with no synonymous or nonsynonymous substitutions) exist outside the homeobox in mammalian Hox genes

  orthologous hox concatenated intronic sliding comparative molecular

• Design factors that influence PCR amplification success of cross-species primers among 1147 mammalian primer pairs.

  PMID 17029642 · PMC1635982 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The number of index-species (IS) mismatches in a primer pair significantly reduces amplification success, with an estimated 6-8% decrease in success rate per additional mismatch.

  dog hamster pcr primer pcr blast sequence

• Genomic analysis of the TRIM family reveals two groups of genes with distinct evolutionary properties.

  PMID 18673550 · PMC2533329 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human TRIM family is split into two groups (group 1 and group 2) that differ in domain structure, genomic organization, and evolutionary properties.

  redundant mammalian genomic vertebrates blast pattern-hit tblastn

• Genomic analysis of a heterogeneous Mendelian phenotype: multiple novel alleles for inherited hearing loss in the Palestinian population.

  PMID 16460646 · PMC3525152 · Human genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GJB2 (connexin 26) mutations account for hearing loss in only 17 of 156 families (11%), a smaller fraction than reported in other populations.

  palestinian genomic probands lymphoblasts targeted sanger pcr

• 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

• Genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences.

  PMID 16759380 · PMC1525190 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Overall pairwise genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human are relatively constant (0.32–0.37 change/site)

  orthologous random cattle aligned three-way pairwise bac

• Heterotachy in mammalian promoter evolution.

  PMID 16683025 · PMC1449885 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The rate of promoter evolution relative to control sequences is not consistent between or within mammalian lineages over time (heterotachy)

  promoter ancient chimpanzee comparative ancient micro-indel

• The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease.

  PMID 18837980 · PMC2576240 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predicted to be under positive selection during human evolution are implicated in diseases (epithelial cancers, schizophrenia, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease) that differ in prevalence and symptomatology between humans and other mammals

  orthologous omim meta-database panther comparative disease protein-protein

• Analysis of recent segmental duplications in the bovine genome.

  PMID 19951423 · PMC2796684 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Recently duplicated sequence (≥1 kb, ≥90% identity) comprises 3.11% (94.4 Mb) of the bovine genome assembly (Btau_4.0)

  bos bovine genes cattle genome fluorescent repeat

• The ASAP II database: analysis and comparative genomics of alternative splicing in 15 animal species.

  PMID 17108355 · PMC1669709 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  ASAP II expands human alternative splicing data ~3-fold over the previous ASAP database, to ~89,078 distinct alternative splicing relationships in 11,717 genes

  genome animal aligned est genome-wide comparative est

• Adapting to a changing world: RAG genomics and evolution.

  PMID 16004728 · PMC3525258 · Human genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RAG-1/RAG-2 origin is a foundational hallmark of adaptive immunity, enabling V(D)J recombination of antigen receptor genes.

  rag-1 patients zebrafish vertebrate comparative site-directed clinical

• Dcode.org anthology of comparative genomic tools.

  PMID 15980535 · PMC1160116 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The dcode.org suite (zPicture, Mulan, eShadow, rVista 2.0, multiTF, Creme 2.0, ECR Browser) provides integrated tools for comparative genomic analysis and non-coding regulatory element discovery.

  dlx1 hoxa prothrombin gene comparative multi-species phylogenetic

• DNA sequence of human chromosome 17 and analysis of rearrangement in the human lineage.

  PMID 16625196 · PMC2610434 · Nature · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A finished sequence of human chromosome 17 (78,839,971 bases, ~2.8% of the euchromatic genome) was generated.

  chromosome dog macaque genomic comparative segmental

• Alternative splicing and bioinformatic analysis of human U12-type introns.

  PMID 17332017 · PMC1874599 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The long, evolutionarily conserved polypyrimidine (Py) tract of the JNK2 U2-U12 hybrid intron provides the signal for default inclusion of the downstream alternative exon 6b in non-neuronal cells

  hela hek293 genome jnk2 rt-pcr minigene bioinformatic

• Rapid bursts of androgen-binding protein (Abp) gene duplication occurred independently in diverse mammals.

  PMID 18269759 · PMC2291036 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The mouse Abp gene repertoire is twice as large as previously reported, comprising 30 Abpa and 34 Abpbg genes/pseudogenes

  c57bl mus rodent genomic comparative pcr phylogenetic

• A novel mutation in FRMD7 causing X-linked idiopathic congenital nystagmus in a large family.

  PMID 18246032 · PMC2267738 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel c.812G>T transversion in exon 9 of FRMD7, causing p.C271F, is the causative mutation for XLICN in this family

  affected family blood frmd7 microsatellite direct denaturing

• CpG_MI: a novel approach for identifying functional CpG islands in mammalian genomes.

  PMID 19854943 · PMC2800233 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Functional ('bona fide') CGIs show distinct average/cumulative mutual information (AMI/CMI) distributions of neighboring CpG distances compared to non-functional CGIs and random genome segments

  genome random cd4+ six average mutual chip-seq

• 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

• Computing Ka and Ks with a consideration of unequal transitional substitutions.

  PMID 16740169 · PMC1552089 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  MYN, a modified version of the Yang-Nielsen (YN) algorithm based on the Tamura-Nei Model, allows unequal transitional substitution rates between purines (κR) and pyrimidines (κY) plus codon frequency bias

  simulated pairs human-mouse human-dog computer comparative

• Tandem repeats modify the structure of human genes hosted in segmental duplications.

  PMID 19954527 · PMC2812944 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Around 7% of primate-specific genes located within segmental duplications contain variable internal tandem repeats (ITRs).

  genome genomic est paired genome-wide comparative cnv