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

• 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

• QuadBase: genome-wide database of G4 DNA--occurrence and conservation in human, chimpanzee, mouse and rat promoters and 146 microbes.

  PMID 17962308 · PMC2238983 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  QuadBase is a compendium of G4 DNA (quadruplex) motifs focused on their occurrence and conservation in promoters, composed of EuQuad and ProQuad

  chimpanzee prokaryotic promoters genome-wide cross-species

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• Variation resources at UC Santa Cruz.

  PMID 17151077 · PMC1781230 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The UCSC Genome Browser variation resources integrate polymorphism data from public collections (dbSNP, HapMap, Affymetrix, Perlegen, SeattleSNPs) into a common format with additional annotations and genomic context.

  chimpanzee affymetrix hapmap perlegen snp fixed linkage

• 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

• The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease.

  PMID 18837980 · PMC2576240 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predicted to be under positive selection during human evolution are implicated in diseases (epithelial cancers, schizophrenia, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease) that differ in prevalence and symptomatology between humans and other mammals

  orthologous omim meta-database panther comparative disease protein-protein

• 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

• The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain.

  PMID 16733552 · PMC1464830 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human and chimp genomes differ by ~35 million single nucleotide substitutions, corresponding to ~1.06% divergence after removing polymorphic sites

  chimpanzee chimp population non-human genome snp high-density

• Reference based annotation with GeneMapper.

  PMID 16600017 · PMC1557983 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  GeneMapper transfers reference gene annotations to target genomes with higher accuracy than GeneWise and Projector

  orthologous human-mouse chicken encode reference-based multi-species reciprocal

• 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

• 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

• Evola: Ortholog database of all human genes in H-InvDB with manual curation of phylogenetic trees.

  PMID 17982176 · PMC2238928 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Evola combines genome synteny-based computational ortholog detection with manual curation of phylogenetic trees by experts to yield more reliable orthologs than automated pairwise methods

  genome h-invdb gene sets genome transcript-to-genome coding

• Genome-wide analyses of retrogenes derived from the human box H/ACA snoRNAs.

  PMID 17175533 · PMC1802619 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  202 novel box H/ACA RNA-related sequences were identified in the human genome

  genome chimpanzee aca flanking megablast comparative sequence

• 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