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Detection of weakly conserved ancestral mammalian regulatory sequences by primate comparisons

Qian-fei Wang1,2,3*, Shyam Prabhakar1,2, Sumita Chanan1, Jan-Fang Cheng1,2, Edward M Rubin1,2 and Dario Boffelli1,2*

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 Current address: Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5814 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R1 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-r1

Published: 3 January 2007

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Additional data file 1:

Sequence alignments of primate-conserved sequence LDLR_PS2.

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Additional data file 2:

Sequence alignments of primate-conserved sequence SREBF1_PS.

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Additional data file 3:

Luciferase functional assays, indicating enhancer activity for orthologous primate LDLR PS4 from baboon, dusky titi, marmoset and lemur.

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Additional data file 4:

Coordinates of evolutionarily conserved elements.

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Additional data file 5:

Sequences of PCR primers used for cloning regulatory elements into reporter gene constructs or generating Southern blotting probes for detecting. DNase I hypersensitive sites

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Additional data file 6:

GenBank accession numbers for all primate BACs sequenced.

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Additional data file 7:

Figure legends for Additional data files 1, 2, 3.

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