Experiments

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• Evaluation of human gene variant detection in amplicon pools by the GS-FLX parallel Pyrosequencer.

  PMID 18842124 · PMC2569949 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  GS-FLX pyrosequencing of pooled amplicons detects sequence variants with high specificity (99.95%) and no false negatives at ≥30× coverage

  pools pcr genomic gs-flx massively sanger pcr

• 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

• Population genomics: diversity and virulence in the Neisseria.

  PMID 18822386 · PMC2612085 · Current opinion in microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Horizontal genetic exchange (recombination) plays a central role in shaping bacterial speciation and population structure in Neisseria

  neisseria meningitidis meningococcal multi-locus microarray genome

• Genomic and epigenetic instability in colorectal cancer pathogenesis.

  PMID 18773902 · PMC2866182 · Gastroenterology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genomic instability (CIN or MSI) is a key early molecular step in colorectal tumorigenesis that may initiate rather than merely accompany the adenoma-carcinoma sequence

  colon embryonic colorectal inter immunohistochemistry karyotype

• Random amino acid mutations and protein misfolding lead to Shannon limit in sequence-structure communication.

  PMID 18769673 · PMC2518838 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The protein sequence-structure map behaves as a noisy digital communication channel whose capacity C exceeds the transmission rate R for native structures, satisfying Shannon's noisy channel theorem

  chains pdbselect25 same single-domain statistical channel negative

• Evaluation of SCN8A as a candidate gene for autosomal dominant essential tremor.

  PMID 18718804 · PMC2877193 · Parkinsonism & related disorders · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Mutations in the coding sequence and splice sites of human SCN8A do not appear to be a common cause of autosomal dominant essential tremor in Caucasian patients.

  genomic neurologically ethnically scn8a heteroduplex pcr snp

• Assignment of Streptococcus agalactiae isolates to clonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

  PMID 18710585 · PMC2533671 · BMC microbiology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A four-SNP set (glnA36, glnA429, glcK180, adhP111) identified via the Not-N algorithm plus empirical testing divides GBS into 10 groups concordant with eBURST-defined population structure.

  gbs clinical bioinformatic eburst kinetic

• A comparison of random sequence reads versus 16S rDNA sequences for estimating the biodiversity of a metagenomic library.

  PMID 18682527 · PMC2532719 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Biodiversity observed by RSR analysis is consistent with that obtained by 16S rDNA analysis

  faecal rsr 16s sargasso shotgun blastn-based 16s

• Correlating novel variable and conserved motifs in the Hemagglutinin protein with significant biological functions.

  PMID 18681973 · PMC2553082 · Virology journal · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  14 MEME blocks were identified in the HA protein of H3N2 strains (1968-1999), with blocks 1, 2, 3, and 7 correlating with several biological functions

  h3n2 meme sequence entropy

• Simultaneous analysis of all SNPs in genome-wide and re-sequencing association studies.

  PMID 18654633 · PMC2464715 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A Bayesian-inspired penalised maximum likelihood stochastic search method can simultaneously analyse all SNPs (up to 500K) from a GWA study in a few hours on a desktop workstation

  fregene-simulated 80k-snp 480k 192k simulated null whole-genome

• Stable in a genome of instability: an interview with Evan Eichler. Interview by Jane Gitschier.

  PMID 18654618 · PMC2442658 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Loss of AGG interruptions in CGG repeat tracts predisposes FMR1 alleles to instability and faster progression toward premutation/disease state

  fmr1 xq28 genome agg fluorescence genome-wide

• Comparative genomic profiling of Dutch clinical Bordetella pertussis isolates using DNA microarrays: identification of genes absent from epidemic strains.

  PMID 18590534 · PMC2481270 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  B. pertussis strains carrying the ptxP3 allele gradually replaced ptxP1 strains and became predominant from 1998, coinciding with the Dutch pertussis resurgence

  dutch additional pertussis ptxp3 multi-locus multiple-locus microarray-based

• Genomic structure and expression of Jmjd6 and evolutionary analysis in the context of related JmjC domain containing proteins.

  PMID 18564434 · PMC2453528 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Jmjd6 has been misleadingly annotated as a transmembrane receptor for engulfment of apoptotic cells; recent evidence contradicts this transmembrane receptor function

  species genomic jmjd6 jmjc reciprocal comparative est

• Comparative genomics supports a deep evolutionary origin for the large, four-module transcriptional mediator complex.

  PMID 18515835 · PMC2475620 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Yeast Med2, Med3/Pgd1 and Med5/Nut1 (Tail module) are homologs of human Med29, Med27 and Med24, respectively

  eukaryotic med genuine psi-blast mafft pssm-based

• Genome-wide survey of allele-specific splicing in humans.

  PMID 18518984 · PMC2427040 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A genome-wide computational scan identified 30,977 SNPs located within predicted splicing regulatory sequences (donor sites, acceptor sites, branch points, and ESEs)

  genome cdna hapmap computational est exon

• Widespread ultraconservation divergence in primates.

  PMID 18492662 · PMC2464743 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  The number of UCEs has decreased throughout primate evolution, from ~1,000 in ancestral primates to 635 in modern humans.

  hg18 genome genes computed comparative snp gene

• Complete genome sequence of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum strain SS14 determined with oligonucleotide arrays.

  PMID 18482458 · PMC2408589 · BMC microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CGS combined with targeted DDT sequencing and whole genome fingerprinting (WGF) can accurately determine a treponemal genome sequence using only three arrays, at accuracy comparable to or better than finished DDT sequencing

  treponema pcr-amplified ss14 pcr comparative dideoxy-terminator genome

• Genomic and bioinformatics analysis of human adenovirus type 37: new insights into corneal tropism.

  PMID 18471294 · PMC2397415 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  The complete genome of HAdV-37 was sequenced and annotated (35,213 bp, 56.6% GC content, 35 predicted coding sequences plus 8 hypothetical ORFs)

  hadv-37 predicted select genome cpg global

• An efficient method for the prediction of deleterious multiple-point mutations in the secondary structure of RNAs using suboptimal folding solutions.

  PMID 18445289 · PMC2386494 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Using RNAsubopt suboptimal solutions computed once for the wild-type sequence, specific multiple-point mutations likely to cause conformational rearrangement can be selected without brute-force enumeration.

  example hepatitis minimum suboptimal multiple-point

• Analysis of chimpanzee history based on genome sequence alignments.

  PMID 18421364 · PMC2278377 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Bonobos and common chimpanzees separated approximately 1.29 million years ago

  bonobo bonobos chimpanzee simulated shotgun sequenom principal