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Vertebrate HCNE terminology disambiguation |
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| Abbreviation |
Term |
Early reference |
Definition |
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| UCR |
Ultraconserved region |
[26] |
≥200 bp 100% conserved between human and mouse |
| [5] |
Nontranscribed, ≥50 bp ≥95% conserved between human and mouse, and at least partially aligned to fugu |
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| UCE |
Ultraconserved element |
[89] |
≥100 bp 100% conserved between human and mouse |
| CNS |
Conserved noncoding sequence |
[90] |
Nongenic, human:mouse, >100 bp and with ≥70% identity |
| CNE |
Conserved noncoding element |
[6] |
Nontranscribed, >100 bp human:fugu alignments with MegaBlast |
| HCNR |
Highly conserved noncoding region |
[7] |
Visual inspection of mouse: Xenopus:zebrafish alignments |
| [91] |
Same as [5] |
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| HCNE |
Highly conserved noncoding element |
[28] |
Windows ≥50 bp that do not overlap coding regions and for which the probability of being under purifying selection, given the conservation score, is ≥95% |
| CNC |
Conserved noncoding region (?) |
[38] |
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| CNG |
Conserved nongenic sequence |
[92] |
Nontranscribed, human:mouse BLAST with an e-value < 10-20 and similarity ≥98% |
| HCE |
Highly conserved element |
[46] |
UCE from Bejerano et al. [26] + UCR from Sandelin et al. [5] + UCR from Sandelin et al. [5] + CNE from Woolfe et al. [6] |
Kikuta et al. Genome Biology 2007 8(Suppl 1):S4 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-s1-s4 |
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