Experiments

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• On the association between chromosomal rearrangements and genic evolution in humans and chimpanzees.

  PMID 17971225 · PMC2246304 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Genes located in rearranged chromosomes show lower non-coding (KI), synonymous (KS), and non-synonymous (KA) divergence than genes in colinear chromosomes.

  human-chimpanzee orthologous genome-wide pairwise lineage-specific permutation

• 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

• Polymorphic segmental duplications at 8p23.1 challenge the determination of individual defensin gene repertoires and the assembly of a contiguous human reference sequence.

  PMID 15588320 · PMC544879 · BMC genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The hg16 automatic assembly of the 8p23.1 DEF locus contains misassemblies caused by segmental duplications and interindividual/intraindividual genetic variation

  bac genome metaphase overlapping manual repeat fluorescence

• 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

• Differences in the evolutionary history of disease genes affected by dominant or recessive mutations.

  PMID 16817963 · PMC1534034 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dominant disease genes are more conserved at the protein level (mouse orthologues) than recessive disease genes.

  disease human-chimpanzee human-mouse-dog elegans sequence paralogue coding

• FeatureScan: revealing property-dependent similarity of nucleotide sequences.

  PMID 16845077 · PMC1538849 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  FeatureScan transforms nucleotide sequences into numerical signals of physico-chemical/conformational properties and compares them via a convolution/correlation (Fourier transform) method rather than comparing letters

  randomly fully same chimpanzee signal-theoretic featurescan blast

• 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

• 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

• Bushes in the tree of life.

  PMID 17105342 · PMC1637082 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Bush-shaped clades, produced by short internal stems and long external branches, resist phylogenetic resolution regardless of the amount of conventional data collected.

  chimpanzee elephant coelacanth metazoan multi-gene rare nuclear

• Comparative genomics comes of age.

  PMID 12186641 · PMC139393 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only about 50% of conserved sequence elements (exons+introns) in orthologous human-mouse genes correspond to exons, implying substantial non-exonic conservation

  orthologous chromosome chimpanzee somatic-cell comparative targeted tiled

• Genome-wide survey for biologically functional pseudogenes.

  PMID 16680195 · PMC1456316 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A subset of ancient, cross-species-conserved pseudogenes (30 of 1,453 candidate quartets) show evidence consistent with retained biological function

  human-mouse chimpanzee cross-species maximum-likelihood synteny

• 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

• Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral character states for gene expression and mRNA splicing data.

  PMID 15921519 · PMC1166541 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  A minimum evolution algorithm (implemented in software 'phyrex') can reconstruct ancestral states of continuous characters like gene expression or splicing levels along a phylogeny

  gene upstream chimpanzee reconstructed minimum sequence ancestral

• 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

• Ancient adaptive evolution of the primate antiviral DNA-editing enzyme APOBEC3G.

  PMID 15269786 · PMC479043 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  APOBEC3G has been under strong, recurrent positive selection throughout primate evolution (~33 million years)

  apobec3g pairwise human-chimpanzee apobec1 pcr phylogenetic sliding

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Pseudofam: the pseudogene families database.

  PMID 18957444 · PMC2686518 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Pseudofam is an online database of pseudogene families built by mapping pseudogenes to Pfam protein families, providing query tools, statistics, and sequence alignments

  eukaryotic over pseudogenes pseudogene blast family sequence