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| Philipp KhaitovichSummaryAffiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Country: Germany Publications
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Human brain evolutionHilliary Creely
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Prog Brain Res 158:295-309. 2006
Intra- and interspecific variation in primate gene expression patternsWolfgang Enard
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Science 296:340-3. 2002..We identified species-specific gene expression patterns indicating that changes in protein and gene expression have been particularly pronounced in the human brain...
Toward a neutral evolutionary model of gene expressionPhilipp Khaitovich
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Genetics 170:929-39. 2005..We discuss the latter result with respect to a neutral model of transcriptome evolution and show that a small number of genes expressed in brain can account for the observed data...
A genome-wide comparison of recent chimpanzee and human segmental duplicationsZe Cheng
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Nature 437:88-93. 2005..Nevertheless, base per base, large segmental duplication events have had a greater impact (2.7%) in altering the genomic landscape of these two species than single-base-pair substitution (1.2%)...
Human and chimpanzee gene expression differences replicated in mice fed different dietsMehmet Somel
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
PLoS ONE 3:e1504. 2008..Our results suggest that the mouse can be used to study at least some aspects of human-specific traits...
Systematic analysis of gene expression in human brains before and after deathHenriette Franz
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Genome Biol 6:R112. 2005..CONCLUSION: We conclude that postmortem human brain samples are suitable for investigating gene expression patterns in humans, but that caution is warranted in interpreting results for individual genes...
Gene expression in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence: implications for the onset of schizophreniaLaura W Harris
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
BMC Med Genomics 2:28. 2009..CONCLUSION: The observed changes imply that molecular mechanisms critical for adolescent brain development are disturbed in schizophrenia patients...
Regional patterns of gene expression in human and chimpanzee brainsPhilipp Khaitovich
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Genome Res 14:1462-73. 2004..Furthermore, genes that show an elevated expression level in humans are statistically significantly enriched in regions that are recently duplicated in humans...
Functionality of intergenic transcription: an evolutionary comparisonPhilipp Khaitovich
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Genet 2:e171. 2006..Further, we find that about half of the expression differences between humans and chimpanzees are due to intergenic transcripts...
Annotating conserved and novel features of primate transcriptomes using sequencingPhilipp Khaitovich
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China
Genome Biol 11:125. 2010..Recent high-throughput sequencing of chimpanzee brain and liver transcriptomes published in Genome Biology reveals multiple transcripts lost in the human genome and highlights the incompleteness of primate genome annotations...
Metabolic changes in schizophrenia and human brain evolutionPhilipp Khaitovich
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yue Yang Road, Shanghai, 200031, PR China
Genome Biol 9:R124. 2008....
Parallel patterns of evolution in the genomes and transcriptomes of humans and chimpanzeesPhilipp Khaitovich
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Science 309:1850-4. 2005....
MicroRNA expression and regulation in human, chimpanzee, and macaque brainsHai yang Hu
Key laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
PLoS Genet 7:e1002327. 2011..Taken together these results indicate that changes in miRNA expression might have contributed to evolution of human cognitive functions...
Intergenic and repeat transcription in human, chimpanzee and macaque brains measured by RNA-SeqAugix Guohua Xu
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China
PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000843. 2010..Some of these transcripts may play roles in transcriptional regulation and contribute to evolution of human-specific phenotypic traits...
A neutral model of transcriptome evolutionPhilipp Khaitovich
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Biol 2:E132. 2004..Furthermore, it may be possible to apply a molecular clock based on expression differences to infer the evolutionary history of tissues...
Comprehensive survey of human brain microRNA by deep sequencingNing Yi Shao
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, 320 Yueyang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China
BMC Genomics 11:409. 2010..Here, we use deep sequencing to characterize a population of small RNA expressed in human and rhesus macaques brain cortex...
Transcriptional neoteny in the human brainMehmet Somel
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5743-8. 2009..This delay is not uniform across the human transcriptome but affects a specific subset of genes that play a potential role in neural development...
FUNC: a package for detecting significant associations between gene sets and ontological annotationsKay Prüfer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
BMC Bioinformatics 8:41. 2007..However, it is often difficult to assess the statistical significance of such analyses since many inter-dependent categories are tested simultaneously...
Comparison of protein and mRNA expression evolution in humans and chimpanzeesNing Fu
Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
PLoS ONE 2:e216. 2007..Our study opens the door to a new level of understanding of regulatory evolution and poses many new questions that remain to be answered...
Sequence features associated with microRNA strand selection in humans and fliesHai yang Hu
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai, 200031, PR China
BMC Genomics 10:413. 2009..While thermodynamic asymmetry of the duplex ends appears to play a decisive role in the strand selection process, the details of the selection mechanism are not yet understood...
Development and application of a modified dynamic time warping algorithm (DTW-S) to analyses of primate brain expression time seriesYuan Yuan
Key Laboratory for Computational Biology, CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
BMC Bioinformatics 12:347. 2011..While many powerful computation tools for time series alignment have been developed, they do not provide significance estimates for time shift measurements...
The effects of probe binding affinity differences on gene expression measurements and how to deal with themMichael Dannemann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Bioinformatics 25:2772-9. 2009..We argue that the method should be used even when sequence data are available. CONTACT: lachmann@eva.mpg.de SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online...
Evolution of primate gene expressionPhilipp Khaitovich
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Nat Rev Genet 7:693-702. 2006....
MicroRNA, mRNA, and protein expression link development and aging in human and macaque brainMehmet Somel
Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
Genome Res 20:1207-18. 2010..These results suggest a direct link between developmental regulation and expression changes taking place in aging...
Widespread expression of piRNA-like molecules in somatic tissuesZheng Yan
Key laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yueyang Road, 200031, Shanghai, China
Nucleic Acids Res 39:6596-607. 2011..Further, using western blot, we have shown the expression of Miwi protein in mouse pancreas. These findings indicate that piRNA-like molecules might play important roles outside of the germline...
Rapid metabolic evolution in human prefrontal cortexXing Fu
Key laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200031 Shanghai, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:6181-6. 2011..These human-specific metabolic changes are paralleled by changes in expression patterns of the corresponding enzymes, and affect pathways involved in synaptic transmission, memory, and learning...
MicroRNA-driven developmental remodeling in the brain distinguishes humans from other primatesMehmet Somel
Key laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
PLoS Biol 9:e1001214. 2011....
Functional analysis of human and chimpanzee promotersFlorian Heissig
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Genome Biol 6:R57. 2005....
Genomic analysis of miRNAs in an extreme mammalian hibernator, the Arctic ground squirrelYuting Liu
CAS MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Shanghai, China
Physiol Genomics 42:39-51. 2010..High-throughput sequencing data and microarray data have been submitted to GEO database with accession: GSE19808...
Brain expression--is it all in our SNPs?Philipp Khaitovich
Department of Comparative Biology, Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Mol Syst Biol 3:155. 2007
Estimating accuracy of RNA-Seq and microarrays with proteomicsXing Fu
Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, PR China
BMC Genomics 10:161. 2009..At present, high throughput sequencing is emerging as an alternative methodology for transcriptome studies. Although free of many limitations imposed by microarray design, its potential to estimate absolute transcript levels is unknown...
Evidence for human microRNA-offset RNAs in small RNA sequencing dataDavid Langenberger
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Bioinformatics 25:2298-301. 2009....
Fast mapping of short sequences with mismatches, insertions and deletions using index structuresSteve Hoffmann
Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000502. 2009..Our approach is implemented in the software segemehl available at http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/Software/segemehl/...
Lineage-specific expansions of retroviral insertions within the genomes of African great apes but not humans and orangutansChris T Yohn
Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e110. 2005..We speculate on the potential impact of such recent events on the evolution of humans and great apes...
Aging and gene expression in the primate brainHunter B Fraser
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e274. 2005....
Evolutionary forces shape the human RFPL1,2,3 genes toward a role in neocortex developmentJérôme Bonnefont
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Am J Hum Genet 83:208-18. 2008..Thus, we propose that the recent emergence and multiplication of the RFPL1,2,3 genes contribute to changes in primate neocortex size and/or organization...
Positive selection on gene expression in the human brainPhilipp Khaitovich
Curr Biol 16:R356-8. 2006
Gene expression becomes heterogeneous with ageMehmet Somel
Curr Biol 16:R359-60. 2006
