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).

• 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

• 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

• Comparative genomics and experimental promoter analysis reveal functional liver-specific elements in mammalian hepatic lipase genes.

  PMID 17428321 · PMC1853088 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cis-regulatory elements responsible for liver-specific HL expression are conserved among mammalian HL genes

  5'-flanking upstream transiently genomic comparative tfbs promoter-reporter

• Evolutionary analysis of the highly dynamic CHEK2 duplicon in anthropoids.

  PMID 18831734 · PMC2566985 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CHEK2 is present as a single copy in New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and gibbons

  metaphase chek2 blood-derived y-chromosomal comparative phylogenetic inter-species

• Hominoid chromosomal rearrangements on 17q map to complex regions of segmental duplication.

  PMID 18257913 · PMC2374708 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The macaque marker order on chromosome 17 represents the ancestral hominoid/mammalian organization

  great felis mus rhesus comparative fish duplicon

• '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

• Chimp genome: branching out.

  PMID 16136102 · PMC7420934 · Nature · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium published the initial draft chimpanzee genome sequence and compared it to the human genome.

  chimpanzee primate rhesus fossil whole-genome phylogenetic genome

• Comparative genomics search for losses of long-established genes on the human lineage.

  PMID 18085818 · PMC2134963 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel comparative genomics method (TransMap-based syntenic mapping of gene structures between human, mouse, and dog) can detect losses of well-established single-copy genes without relying on sequence homology to a parental gene, distinguishing them from typical duplication- or retrotransposition-derived pseudogenes.

  dog genome chimp gorilla comparative overlap visual

• Comparative genomic analysis of prion genes.

  PMID 17199895 · PMC1781936 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SPRN and PRNP homologues are present in all vertebrates, whereas PRND is restricted to tetrapods and PRNT is restricted to primates

  vertebrate multi-tissue aligned sprn comparative gene cdna

• Programmed genetic instability: a tumor-permissive mechanism for maintaining the evolvability of higher species through methylation-dependent mutation of DNA repair genes in the male germ line.

  PMID 18535014 · PMC2464741 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Repair genes are numerically less common than apoptosis genes in the genomes of multicellular organisms

  yeast familial human-mouse comparative gene mutation

• 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 methodological framework for the reconstruction of contiguous regions of ancestral genomes and its application to mammalian genomes.

  PMID 19043541 · PMC2580819 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A general model-free methodological framework is proposed for reconstructing Contiguous Ancestral Regions (CARs) from conserved syntenies, generalizing prior computational and cytogenetic approaches

  genome boreoeutherian ferungulate marker-presence whole-genome ancestral combinatorial

• Large-scale analysis of Macaca fascicularis transcripts and inference of genetic divergence between M. fascicularis and M. mulatta.

  PMID 18294402 · PMC2287170 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Constructed full-length-enriched cDNA libraries and determined 85,721 EST sequences and 9407 full-insert sequences from cynomolgus macaque brain (7 regions), testis, and liver

  cynomolgus 3-year-old macaque est full-insert oligonucleotide

• 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

• Systems biology and the host response to viral infection.

  PMID 18066032 · PMC7097743 · Nature biotechnology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Systems biology integration of 'omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, genomics) with computational modeling is needed to fully understand virus-host interactions and identify novel antiviral targets

  lung cd4 rhesus kshv microarray quantitative genomic

• DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9.

  PMID 15164053 · PMC2734081 · Nature · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The finished euchromatic sequence of chromosome 9 comprises 109,044,351 base pairs, representing >99.6% of the region.

  bac chromosome fibres chimpanzee clone-based restriction computational

• 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

• Automated recognition of retroviral sequences in genomic data--RetroTector.

  PMID 17636050 · PMC1976444 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RetroTector uses 'fragment threading' (detection of chains of conserved retroviral motifs satisfying distance constraints) combined with LTR detection and protein reconstruction to identify ERVs in genomic sequences

  reference genome chimpanzee red motif whole-genome simulated

• Inter-population variability of DEFA3 gene absence: correlation with haplotype structure and population variability.

  PMID 17214878 · PMC1779775 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The proportion of subjects lacking DEFA3 varies significantly by population, from 10% to 37%

  genomic hapmap 150-kb alpha-defensin pcr-rflp snp linkage

• Assessing the gene space in draft genomes.

  PMID 19042974 · PMC2615622 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  The proportion of mapped CEGs in a draft genome assembly is a useful metric for describing gene space completeness, complementing N50 and x-fold coverage.

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