Experiments

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• Computer identification of snoRNA genes using a Mammalian Orthologous Intron Database.

  PMID 16093549 · PMC1184218 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Created the Mammalian Orthologous Intron Database (MOID) containing orthologous introns of human, mouse and rat identified via conserved reading-frame position

  introns ribosomal rrna comparative orthologous pairwise

• Patterns and rates of intron divergence between humans and chimpanzees.

  PMID 17309804 · PMC1852421 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Intron divergence (Ki) is strongly positively correlated with intron length

  orthologous genome whole-genome cpg recombination

• Human and mouse introns are linked to the same processes and functions through each genome's most frequent non-conserved motifs.

  PMID 18450818 · PMC2425492 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pyknons (recurrent, genome-specific, ≥16nt motifs with ≥30 intact intergenic/intronic copies and ≥1 exonic copy) span a substantial fraction of previously uncharacterized intronic space (7.4% human, 4.4% mouse)

  pyknon computational comparative term

• AceView: a comprehensive cDNA-supported gene and transcripts annotation.

  PMID 16925834 · PMC1810549 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  At the mRNA level, AceView transcripts are the closest match to Gencode transcripts among all evaluated methods, including alternative splice variants

  genome encode caenorhabditis comparative n-to-n cds

• 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

• Comprehensive splice-site analysis using comparative genomics.

  PMID 16914448 · PMC1557818 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Over half a million splice sites were collected from five species (H. sapiens, M. musculus, D. melanogaster, C. elegans, A. thaliana) and classified into four main subtypes: U2-type GT-AG and GC-AG, and U12-type GT-AG and AT-AC.

  refseq u2-type genes comparative information phylogenetic

• ASPIC: a web resource for alternative splicing prediction and transcript isoforms characterization.

  PMID 16845044 · PMC1538898 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  The ASPIC algorithm, using an optimization procedure that minimizes splice site predictions and transcript isoforms from multiple EST-genome alignments, outperforms other similar AS-prediction tools in sensitivity and selectivity

  hnrpr specified comparative algorithm

• Directionality of point mutation and 5-methylcytosine deamination rates in the chimpanzee genome.

  PMID 17166280 · PMC1764022 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  C→T (G→A) changes occur most frequently among nucleotide substitutions in the chimpanzee genome

  chimpanzee intergenic genome-wide chi-square nucleotide-content

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Heterogeneous genomic molecular clocks in primates.

  PMID 17029560 · PMC1592237 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Non-CpG site substitutions show clear generation-time dependency, consistent with a replication-error origin

  baboon chimpanzee same human-chimpanzee relative phylogenetic four-species

• Developments in CORG: a gene-centric comparative genomics resource.

  PMID 17135197 · PMC1751536 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  CORG provides pairwise and multiple sequence alignments of upstream promoter regions and whole gene loci across 10 vertebrate species.

  upstream gene overlapping c-fos pairwise sequence comparative

• A nonsense mutation in CRYGC associated with autosomal dominant congenital nuclear cataract in a Chinese family.

  PMID 18618005 · PMC2447816 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  A heterozygous c.327C>A transversion in exon 3 of CRYGC causes a nonsense mutation (C109X) that cosegregates with autosomal dominant congenital nuclear cataract in a Chinese family.

  genomic type family γc-crystallin pcr comparative clinical

• Continued colonization of the human genome by mitochondrial DNA.

  PMID 15361937 · PMC515365 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NUMT insertion into nuclear chromosomes is an ongoing process shaped by double-strand-break repair (as shown in yeast) and continuing in humans.

  homo genomic chimpanzee genome genome-wide pcr sanger

• SVC: structured visualization of evolutionary sequence conservation.

  PMID 15991338 · PMC1160265 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  SVC aligns protein-coding sequences of orthologous gene pairs and maps them back onto their encoding exons/introns to generate a scaffold of conserved gene structure.

  orthologous exonic tblastx blastn sliding-window

• Identification of polymorphisms and balancing selection in the male infertility candidate gene, ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 3.

  PMID 16542438 · PMC1526716 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Mutations in the OAZ3 gene are not a common cause of male infertility

  genomic coding inferred oaz3 direct sscp haplotype

• 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

• Organismal complexity, cell differentiation and gene expression: human over mouse.

  PMID 17881362 · PMC2095826 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human shows a greater fraction of tissue-specific genes and a greater ratio of total expression of tissue-specific to housekeeping genes than mouse across 32 homologous tissues

  human-mouse oligonucleotide exon comparative

• Molecular evolution of Cide family proteins: novel domain formation in early vertebrates and the subsequent divergence.

  PMID 18500987 · PMC2426694 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Sequences homologous to the CIDE-N domain/NCD show a wide phylogenetic distribution, from hydra and sea anemone to mammals, while true Cide proteins are restricted to vertebrates.

  organisms cide cideb hmmer tblastn sequence