Research article
An ancient history of gene duplications, fusions and losses in the evolution of APOBEC3 mutators in mammals
1 Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
2 Genomics and Health, Centre for Public Health Research (CSISP), Valencia, Spain
3 Infections and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) | Bellvitge Institute of Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
4 Infections and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Avda. Gran Via, 199-203, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:71 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-71
Published: 28 May 2012Additional files
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Table S1.Taxonomy and sequence accession numbers of the sequences used in this study.
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Figure S1.Best‒known maximum likelihood tree for the A3 genes analysed, AICDA and for the outgroup A1. Colour code describes mammalian taxa, as in Figure 1. Values in the nodes depict bootstrap support.
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Figure S2.mRNAs deposited in the databases originating from the human A3 locus, after the USCS Genome Browser ( http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi‒bin/hgTracks webcite), showing human chromosome 22, positions 39,250,000 to 39,550,000, accessed on December 13th 2011.
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Figure S3.Bayesian dated tree for the A3 genes analysed, AICDA and for the outgroup A1. Bars around the nodes describe the 95% HPD for the inference of the node age.
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Table S2.Values for calibration used in this study.
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Figure S4.Copy number variation in the human A3 locus, after the Database of Genomic Variants ( http://projects.tcag.ca/cgi‒bin/variation/gbrowse/hg19/ webcite), showing human chromosome 22, positions 39,250,000 to 39,550,000, accessed on December 13th 2011.
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