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Large-scale analysis of Macaca fascicularis transcripts and inference of genetic divergence between M. fascicularis and M. mulatta

Naoki Osada1 email, Katsuyuki Hashimoto1 email, Yosuke Kameoka1 email, Makoto Hirata1 email, Reiko Tanuma1 email, Yasuhiro Uno2 email, Itsuro Inoue3 email, Munetomo Hida4 email, Yutaka Suzuki5 email, Sumio Sugano5 email, Keiji Terao6 email, Jun Kusuda1 email and Ichiro Takahashi1 email

Department of Biomedical Resources, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Ibaraki, Japan

Pharmacokinetics and Bioanalysis Center, Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd., Kainain, Japan

Division of Genetic Diagnosis, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

International Research and Educational Institute for Integrated Medical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tsukuba Primate Center for Medical Science, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Tsukuba, Japan

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:90doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-90

Published: 24 February 2008

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Additional file 1:

Expression of novel macaque transcripts. Significance of gene expression in the M. fascicularis oligonucleotide microarray analysis is shown.

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Unidentified UTR regions in the macaque cDNAs. The regions of macaque cDNAs that did not show homology to human cDNAs are listed.

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Divergence among the human, cynomolgus, and rhesus genes (dataset I: without a duplication filtering). Estimation of gene divergence using 2655 human-rhesus-cynomolgus alignment is shown.

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LRT (likelihood ratio test) statistics for the test of positive selection. Candidate genes under positive selection using branch-site test of positive selection are given with log-likelihood ratio.

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Specific probes for known genes in the M. fascicularis microarray. These genes are not found in the previously published macaque oligonucleotide microarray.

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Primer sequences for RT-PCR. The list shows the primer sequences that were used for RT-PCR.

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