Experiments

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• 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

• Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity.

  PMID 18818765 · PMC2538571 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  X-linked diversity is higher than the neutral expectation (0.75) relative to autosomal diversity in all six sampled human populations

  humans population simulated computational resequencing coalescent-based coalescent

• Natural selection of protein structural and functional properties: a single nucleotide polymorphism perspective.

  PMID 18397526 · PMC2643940 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The SNP A/S ratio is a robust measure of selective constraint, correlating with interspecies Ka/Ks ratios and with protein sequence conservation.

  sequence genes proteins sequences snp interspecies sequence

• A genome-wide screen for noncoding elements important in primate evolution.

  PMID 18215302 · PMC2242780 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A new likelihood ratio test (LRT) method, using nearby ancestral repeats to control for local mutation rate, can identify noncoding elements with lineage-specific accelerated substitution rates.

  phastcons global genome accelerated comparative targeted fisher's

• 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

• The evolution and genomic landscape of CGB1 and CGB2 genes.

  PMID 17055150 · PMC2599907 · Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CGB1 and CGB2 arose via insertion of a DNA fragment (736/724 bp) replacing part of the ancestral hCGβ promoter and 5'-UTR, creating a novel exon 1 and causing a frameshift that produces a completely different 132-aa protein unrelated to hCGβ

  genomic great cgb1 chimpanzee pcr population hka

• 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

• Evolution of genomic sequence inhomogeneity at mid-range scales.

  PMID 19891785 · PMC2779198 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  MRI regions have comparable levels of de novo mutations to control genomic sequences with average base composition.

  chimpanzee population genome whole-genome snp indel

• 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 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

• 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

• Web-based resources for comparative genomics.

  PMID 16197736 · PMC3525128 · Human genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative genomics is an indispensable tool for identifying functional genome elements and exploring evolutionary genome dynamics

  yeast chimpanzee mammalian protein-coding comparative genome maximum-likelihood

• 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

• Lineage-specific gene duplication and loss in human and great ape evolution.

  PMID 15252450 · PMC449870 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genome-wide interspecies cDNA aCGH can identify lineage-specific gene copy number changes across five hominoid species

  bonobo chimpanzee gorilla orangutan cdna fluorescence literature-based

• 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

• Presence of myocilin sequence variants in Japanese patients with open-angle glaucoma.

  PMID 18334962 · PMC2268858 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Two MYOC sequence variants were identified in Japanese POAG patients: a novel non-synonymous variant p.Gln297His and a previously reported variant p.Ala363Thr.

  genomic myoc poag pcr amino clinical

• 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

• 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

• Highly individual methylation patterns of alternative glucocorticoid receptor promoters suggest individualized epigenetic regulatory mechanisms.

  PMID 19004867 · PMC2602793 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation patterns of the five GR promoters activated in PBMCs are highly variable between individuals.

  chromosome genomic pbmc multi-species phylogenetic bisulphite

• RPS4Y gene family evolution in primates.

  PMID 18477388 · PMC2397393 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The duplication event giving rise to RPS4Y2 occurred after the divergence of New World monkeys, about 35 million years ago.

  primate chromosomes rps4x concatenated pcr fluorescence repeat