Experiments

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• Inconsistencies in Neanderthal genomic DNA sequences.

  PMID 17937503 · PMC2014787 · PLoS genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The Noonan et al. and Green et al. Neanderthal nuclear DNA datasets yield mutually inconsistent estimates of population split time and Neanderthal admixture proportion when analyzed with the same method

  neanderthal green neanderthal-specific population-genetic fragment-length-stratified hapmap

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The many uses of a genome sequence.

  PMID 11423005 · PMC138940 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Solved protein structures from structural genomics efforts can be used to model many other proteins by homology, aiding function prediction

  recombinant mammalian chromosome chimpanzee x-ray quantitative tiling