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Primate-specific evolution of an LDLR enhancer

Qian-fei Wang1,2, Shyam Prabhakar1,2, Qianben Wang3, Alan M Moses1, Sumita Chanan1, Myles Brown3, Michael B Eisen1, Jan-Fang Cheng1,2, Edward M Rubin1,2* and Dario Boffelli1,2

  • * Corresponding author: Edward M Rubin EMRubin@lbl.gov

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

2 US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598, USA

3 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R68 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-8-r68

Published: 2 August 2006

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Additional data file 1:

A figure showing the conservation profiles of the LDLR locus using (A) human-dog and (B) human-lemur sequence comparisons.

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Additional data file 2:

A figure showing the DNaseI hypersensitive site mapping around the LDLR PS2 region in human liver cell line HepG2.

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Additional data file 3:

A figure showing that human LDLR PS2 enhancer activity is independent of the LDLR promoter.

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Additional data file 4:

A table listing the primers used in the cloning of human LDLR promoter and PS2 elements from indicated species.

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Additional data file 5:

A table listing the primers used in ChIP assay.

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