Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• 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 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

• Patrocles: a database of polymorphic miRNA-mediated gene regulation in vertebrates.

  PMID 19906729 · PMC2808989 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Patrocles is a database compiling DSPs predicted to perturb miRNA-mediated gene regulation across seven vertebrate species, covering targets, miRNA precursors and silencing machinery.

  3'-utr mirbase hapmap comparative snp mirna

• Positive selection for the male functionality of a co-retroposed gene in the hominoids.

  PMID 19832993 · PMC2773790 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PIPSL is an extraordinary co-retroposed protein-coding gene that may participate in male-specific functions of humans and close relatives

  african chimpanzee orangutan reconstructed population hka comparative

• Directionality of point mutation and 5-methylcytosine deamination rates in the chimpanzee genome.

  PMID 17166280 · PMC1764022 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  C→T (G→A) changes occur most frequently among nucleotide substitutions in the chimpanzee genome

  chimpanzee intergenic genome-wide chi-square nucleotide-content

• Detecting natural selection by empirical comparison to random regions of the genome.

  PMID 19783549 · PMC2778377 · Human molecular genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Comparing candidate loci to empirically matched random genomic regions (ENCODE data) avoids the strong demographic/mutation assumptions required by theoretical neutral models and provides a robust test for selection

  ceu genomic simulated long-read snp population

• Strong signature of natural selection within an FHIT intron implicated in prostate cancer risk.

  PMID 18953408 · PMC2568805 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Re-sequencing and genotyping across a 28.5 kb region delineates the prostate cancer risk association within FHIT intron 5 to a 15 kb LD block in European-Americans.

  european-american yoruban japanese case sanger snp linkage

• The detection of regions of our genome under selection has increasingly relied on the use of genome scans.

  PMID 16197732 · PMC3525123 · Human genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Markers linked to a locus under local adaptation show larger variance in allele frequencies across populations (higher FST) than neutral markers

  populations common genome snp comparative

• Recurring genomic breaks in independent lineages support genomic fragility.

  PMID 17090315 · PMC1636669 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  The propensity of a chromosomal region to break is significantly correlated among independent lineages, even after accounting for covariates like region length and functional class.

  hg17 genome computationally comparative marker segmental

• 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

• 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

• Phylogenomic approaches to common problems encountered in the analysis of low copy repeats: the sulfotransferase 1A gene family example.

  PMID 15752422 · PMC555591 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A previously unidentified fourth human SULT1A gene (SULT1A4) exists on chromosome 16 and is transcriptionally active

  genome chimpanzee sult1a3 est blast-like comparative pairwise

• 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

• 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

• Evolution and functional divergence of NLRP genes in mammalian reproductive systems.

  PMID 19682372 · PMC2735741 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Major NLRP genes duplicated before the divergence of mammals, with lineage-specific duplications in primates (NLRP7, NLRP11) and rodents (Nlrp1, Nlrp4, Nlrp9)

  mammalian cattle oocyte-expressed genome phylogenetic syntenic functional

• 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

• 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