CONDOR: a database resource of developmentally associated conserved non-coding elements

A Woolfe, DK Goode, J Cooke, H Callaway… - BMC developmental …, 2007 - Springer
Background Comparative genomics is currently one of the most popular approaches to
study the regulatory architecture of vertebrate genomes. Fish-mammal genomic …

Ancient duplicated conserved noncoding elements in vertebrates: a genomic and functional analysis

GK McEwen, A Woolfe, D Goode, T Vavouri… - Genome …, 2006 - genome.cshlp.org
Fish–mammal genomic comparisons have proved powerful in identifying conserved
noncoding elements likely to be cis-regulatory in nature, and the majority of those tested in …

The importance of being cis: evolution of orthologous fish and mammalian enhancer activity

DI Ritter, Q Li, D Kostka, KS Pollard… - Molecular biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) in vertebrate genomes often act as developmental
enhancers, but a critical issue is how well orthologous CNE sequences retain the same …

Organization of conserved elements near key developmental regulators in vertebrate genomes

A Woolfe, G Elgar - Advances in genetics, 2008 - Elsevier
Sequence conservation has traditionally been used as a means to target functional regions
of complex genomes. In addition to its use in identifying coding regions of genes, the recent …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic human/zebrafish comparative identification of cis-regulatory activity around vertebrate developmental transcription factor genes

P Navratilova, D Fredman, TA Hawkins, K Turner… - Developmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Pan-vertebrate developmental cis-regulatory elements are discernible as highly conserved
noncoding elements (HCNEs) and are often dispersed over large areas around the …

Early evolution of conserved regulatory sequences associated with development in vertebrates

GK McEwen, DK Goode, HJ Parker, A Woolfe… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Comparisons between diverse vertebrate genomes have uncovered thousands of highly
conserved non-coding sequences, an increasing number of which have been shown to …

Tuning in to the signals: noncoding sequence conservation in vertebrate genomes

G Elgar, T Vavouri - Trends in genetics, 2008 - cell.com
Aligning and comparing genomic sequences enables the identification of conserved
sequence signatures and can enrich for coding and noncoding functional regions. In …

Exploiting human–fish genome comparisons for deciphering gene regulation

N Ahituv, EM Rubin, MA Nobrega - Human Molecular Genetics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Comparative genomics has served as an essential guide in the identification of functional
coding and non-coding sequences in vertebrate genomes. Human–mouse pair-wise …

Highly conserved non-coding sequences are associated with vertebrate development

A Woolfe, M Goodson, DK Goode, P Snell… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
In addition to protein coding sequence, the human genome contains a significant amount of
regulatory DNA, the identification of which is proving somewhat recalcitrant to both in silico …

Shuffling of cis-regulatory elements is a pervasive feature of the vertebrate lineage

R Sanges, E Kalmar, P Claudiani, M D'Amato, F Muller… - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
Background All vertebrates share a remarkable degree of similarity in their development as
well as in the basic functions of their cells. Despite this, attempts at unearthing genome-wide …