BMC Evolutionary Biology

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This article is part of the supplement: First International Conference on Phylogenomics

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Comparative analysis of genome tiling array data reveals many novel primate-specific functional RNAs in human

Zhaolei Zhang1,2*, Andy WC Pang1,2 and Mark Gerstein3

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1 Banting & Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly CCBR, 160 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada

2 Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada

3 Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MBB), Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S14 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-S1-S14

Published: 8 February 2007

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chromosomal coordinates of the final 353 candidate TAR sequences based on NCBI build 34

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DNA sequence of these candidate sequences

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UCSC genome browser screen shots of these 3 candidate sequences as shown in Figure 2. These screenshots show that these sequences are either absent or less conserved in the mouse and rat genomes, thus are primate-specific.

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