Experiments

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• '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

• 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

• 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

• The genomic distribution of intraspecific and interspecific sequence divergence of human segmental duplications relative to human/chimpanzee chromosomal rearrangements.

  PMID 18699995 · PMC2542386 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Some relatively recent (young) SDs accumulate in regions homologous to chromosomal inversions that occurred in the sister lineage

  genome sds chimpanzee colinear comparative interspecific genomic

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Neandertal genome and ancient DNA authenticity.

  PMID 19661919 · PMC2725275 · The EMBO journal · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Only direct assays of DNA sequence positions where Neandertals differ from all contemporary humans can reliably estimate human contamination.

  neandertal pcr high-throughput genome

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Association of poly-purine/poly-pyrimidine sequences with meiotic recombination hot spots.

  PMID 16846522 · PMC1543642 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  PPT frequency is significantly elevated in yeast meiotic recombination hot spots compared with cold spots

  cerevisiae genome chimpanzee hot computational microarray comparative