Experiments

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• Genomewide pattern of synonymous nucleotide substitution in two complete genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  PMID 12453367 · PMC2738538 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2002 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genomewide comparison of two complete M. tuberculosis genomes reveals substantially more nucleotide diversity than prior studies based on few loci suggested

  tuberculosis putative orthologous genomewide blastp clustal nei-gojobori

• Sushi gets serious: the draft genome sequence of the pufferfish Fugu rubripes.

  PMID 12225591 · PMC139409 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The Fugu rubripes draft genome sequence was generated by whole-genome shotgun sequencing assembled to ~5.6x coverage using the JAZZ pipeline.

  fugu assembled whole-genome computational comparative

• Gene duplication: the genomic trade in spare parts.

  PMID 15252449 · PMC449868 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Gene duplication relaxes selective constraint on one copy, allowing exploration of evolutionary space that is otherwise forbidden in single-copy genes, making duplication the major opportunity for new gene function evolution.

  great genome recently yeast genome-wide molecular comparative

• Benchmarking tools for the alignment of functional noncoding DNA.

  PMID 14736341 · PMC344529 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Global alignment tools (Avid, ClustalW, Lagan, Needle, DiAlign-G) typically have higher sensitivity over entire noncoding sequences and within constrained blocks than local tools

  simulated melanogaster sapiens sequence pairwise genome

• Evolutionary distance estimation and fidelity of pair wise sequence alignment.

  PMID 15840174 · PMC1087827 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Evolutionary distance estimation is relatively unaffected by alignment error as long as 50% or more of homologous sites remain identical between sequences

  simulated simulated sequence indel

• Evolutionary sequence analysis of complete eukaryote genomes.

  PMID 15762985 · PMC1274250 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A conservative genome-comparison method (MIA) identifies panorthologs — strict single-copy 1:1 orthologs containing only species divergences, no paralogy — to minimize errors from gene duplication in evolutionary sequence analysis.

  complete panortholog concatenated individual reciprocal sequence neighbor-joining

• Evaluation of six methods for estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates.

  PMID 17127215 · PMC5054070 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Incorporating more sequence evolution features (transition/transversion bias, nucleotide/codon frequency bias) into Ka/Ks estimation methods yields more accurate and reliable estimates.

  simulated computer

• 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

• Insights into the coupling of duplication events and macroevolution from an age profile of animal transmembrane gene families.

  PMID 16895434 · PMC1534073 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The density of transmembrane gene duplicates positively correlates with the estimated maximum number of cell types of common ancestors

  transmembrane simulated age duplicate maximum kernel monte

• Polymorphisms in the glucocerebrosidase gene and pseudogene urge caution in clinical analysis of Gaucher disease allele c.1448T>C (L444P).

  PMID 16887033 · PMC1559599 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  A multiplexed suspension bead array (Luminex) assay was developed to genotype 8 Ashkenazi-prevalent disease alleles including GBA c.1448T>C

  genomic de-identified multiplex sanger clinical

• What makes species unique? The contribution of proteins with obscure features.

  PMID 16859532 · PMC1779552 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  POFs constitute 18-38% (average 26%) of a typical eukaryotic proteome

  eukaryotic animal cerevisiae homo hmmpfam blast tblastn

• 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

• 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

• A paradigm for virus-host coevolution: sequential counter-adaptations between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.

  PMID 17997604 · PMC2065879 · PLoS pathogens · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Two enJSRV proviruses (enJS56A1 and enJSRV-20) independently acquired a defective, transdominant Gag (R21W substitution) that blocks late replication steps of exogenous JSRV/ENTV

  sheep nih3t3 domestic enjsrv bac retroviral locus-specific

• Positive natural selection in the evolution of human metapneumovirus attachment glycoprotein.

  PMID 17931731 · PMC7114232 · Virus research · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  8 amino acid sites in the extracellular domain of hMPV lineage 1a show a higher rate of nonsynonymous than synonymous substitutions (posterior probability >0.95), indicating positive selection.

  unique hmpv sequence neighbor-joining codon

• 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

• Endonuclease-independent insertion provides an alternative pathway for L1 retrotransposition in the human genome.

  PMID 17517773 · PMC1920257 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An endonuclease-independent pathway (NCLI) for L1 insertion has been active in recent human genome evolution

  genome chimpanzee genomic pcr computational triple pcr

• In silico segmentations of lentivirus envelope sequences.

  PMID 17376229 · PMC1847453 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C and V regions of lentivirus SU sequences have distinct statistical (oligonucleotide/amino-acid) compositions that HMMs can learn and use to delimit them.

  eiav hiv hmm-based hmm artificial

• Synonymous substitution rates predict HIV disease progression as a result of underlying replication dynamics.

  PMID 17305421 · PMC1797821 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The synonymous substitution rate (dS) of HIV env is strongly correlated with disease progression parameters (progression time, CD4+ decline rate, viral load increase rate), unlike the nonsynonymous rate (dN).

  longitudinal backbone env intra-patient relaxed-clock correlation site-to-site

• Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals.

  PMID 18826599 · PMC2576242 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  CpG/non-CpG assignment based on presence/absence of a CpG dinucleotide seriously biases substitution rate estimates, overestimating CpG changes and underestimating non-CpG changes.

  randomly real human-chimpanzee simulated simulation comparative