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Analysis of mammalian gene batteries reveals both stable ancestral cores and highly dynamic regulatory sequences

Laurence Ettwiller1,3*, Aidan Budd2, François Spitz1 and Joachim Wittbrodt1,3,4

Author Affiliations

1 Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL-Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany

2 Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL-Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany

3 Current address: Heidelberg Institute of Zoology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

4 Current address: Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Karlsruhe, 76021, Germany

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R172 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r172

Published: 16 December 2008

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Additional data file 1:

Summary of the ChIP data used.

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Additional data file 2:

Over-represented motifs.

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Additional data file 3:

Over-represented motifs.

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Additional data file 4:

Numerical values from Figure 1a,b as well as the genes analyzed and their orthologues in the 25 species studied.

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Additional data file 5:

De novo analysis of over-represented motifs in the orthologous regions of the E2F1/E2F4 bound locus in human.

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Positional bias of the binding sites relative to the TSS.

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Detailed analysis of the ancestral core.

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Composition of the ancestral core and the position frequency matrices used to find the cores.

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Additional data file 9:

Transcription factors with conserved DNA-base residues.

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Additional data file 10:

Distribution of motif number in core and non-core genes.

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Supplementary notes.

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