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Parallel evolution of conserved non-coding elements that target a common set of developmental regulatory genes from worms to humans

Tanya Vavouri1,2 email, Klaudia Walter3 email, Walter R Gilks4 email, Ben Lehner* 5 email and Greg Elgar* 2 email

1Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK

2School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK

3MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK

4Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

5EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), UPF, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2007, 8:R15doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-r15

Published: 2 February 2007

Subject areas: Genetics, Evolution, Molecular biology


Additional files

Additional data file 1:

Distribution of wCNEs along each chromosome.

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Additional data file 2:

Distribution of distances between CNEs in both the C. elegans and the H. sapiens genomes and for randomized CNE locations.

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Additional data file 3:

Distribution of distances between intergenic wCNEs and their nearest genes.

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Additional data file 4:

Top-level InterPro protein domains significantly enriched in CNE-associated genes compared to the rest of the genes in the (a) H. sapiens and (b) C. elegans genomes.

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Additional data file 5:

Enrichment for transcription factors among wCNE-associated genes, using two different collections of predicted transcription factors from the C. elegans genome.

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wCNEs overlapping known cis-regulatory elements.

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Additional data file 7:

Annotation features from WormBase that were used to annotate wCNEs.

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Additional data file 8:

Sequences of the 2,084 wCNEs.

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Additional data file 9:

Coordinates of the wCNEs in the C. elegans genome, their nearest genes and their human orthologs.

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Additional data file 10:

Coordinates of the human CNEs from Woolfe et al. [4] with their nearest genes assigned using the same method as for the wCNEs.

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