Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 69-87

  Mikkelsen, Tarjei S ^a,b   Hillier, Ladeana W ^c   Eichler, Evan E ^d   Zody, Michael C ^a   Jaffe, David B ^a   Yang, Shiaw Pyng ^c   Enard, Wolfgang ^e   Hellmann, Ines ^e   Lindblad Toh, Kerstin ^a   Altheide, Tasha K ^f   Archidiacono, Nicoletta ^g   Bork, Peer ^h,i   Butler, Jonathan ^a   Chang, Jean L ^a   Cheng, Ze ^d   Chinwalla, Asif T ^c   Dejong, Pieter ^j   Delehaunty, Kimberley D ^c   Fronick, Catrina C ^c   Fulton, Lucinda L ^c   Gilad, Yoav ^k   Glusman, Gustavo ^l   Gnerre, Sante ^a   Graves, Tina A ^c   Hayakawa, Toshiyuki ^f   Hayden, Karen E ^m   Huang, Xiaoqiu ⁿ   Ji, Hongkai ^o   Kent, W James ^p   King, Mary Claire ^d   Kulbokas, Edward J ^a   Lee, Ming K ^d   Liu, Ge ^m   Lopez Otin, Carlos ^q   Makova, Kateryna D ^r   Man, Orna ^s   Mardis, Elaine R ^c   Mauceli, Evan ^a   Miner, Tracie L ^c   Nash, William E ^c   Nelson, Joanne O ^c   Pääbo, Svante ^e   Patterson, Nick J ^a   Pohl, Craig S ^c   Pollard, Katherine S ^p   Prüfer, Kay ^e   Puente, Xose S ^q   Reich, David ^a,t   Rocchi, Mariano ^g   Rosenbloom, Kate ^p   Ruvolo, Maryellen ^u   Richter, Daniel J ^a   Schaffner, Stephen F ^a   Smit, Arian F A ^l   Smith, Scott M ^c   Suyama, Mikita ^h   Taylor, James ^r   Torrents, David ^h   Tuzun, Eray ^d   Varki, Ajit ^f   Velasco, Gloria ^q   Ventura, Mario ^g   Wallis, John W ^c   Wendl, Michael C ^c   Wilson, Richard K ^c   Lander, Eric S ^a,b,t,v   Waterston, Robert H ^d   more..

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^h EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^j CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^m CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ Iowa State University ^*  (United States)

^o HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p Santa Cruz   (United States)

^q DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^r PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^t HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^u HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

CHIMPANZEE; GENOME SEQUENCE; HUMAN GENOMES;

GENES;

GENOME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; TELOMERE; TIME;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

ALLELES; ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24344500211     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04072     Document Type: Article

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