2001
Modern African Ape Populations as Genetic and Demographic Models of the Last Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas
Jensen-Seaman M, Deinard A, Kidd K. Modern African Ape Populations as Genetic and Demographic Models of the Last Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas. Journal Of Heredity 2001, 92: 475-480. PMID: 11948214, DOI: 10.1093/jhered/92.6.475.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLast common ancestorEffective population sizeNucleotide diversityCommon ancestorStrong female philopatryStrong geographic structuringPopulation sizeHuman evolutionary historyNuclear lociGeographic structuringModern humansFemale philopatryEvolutionary historyAncestral populationsGorilla lineageMolecular dataNuclear DNAClose relativesDemographic modelsAfrican ape speciesApe populationsApe speciesNatal groupSpeciesDispersal systemMitochondrial DNA variation and biogeography of eastern gorillas
Jensen‐Seaman M, Kidd K. Mitochondrial DNA variation and biogeography of eastern gorillas. Molecular Ecology 2001, 10: 2241-2247. PMID: 11555266, DOI: 10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01365.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAfricaAnimalsDNA, MitochondrialGenetic VariationGorilla gorillaHaplotypesHumansPhylogenyConceptsMitochondrial DNA variationDNA variationEastern gorillasD-loop haplotypesFirst hypervariable segmentPopulation bottlenecksDistinct cladesGenetic diversityControl regionD-loopHypervariable segmentCladeLast Glacial MaximumGorillasForest reductionHaplotypesGlacial MaximumBiogeographyEast AfricaGlobal coolingDiversityMutationsLow levelsVariationFragmentation
1999
Tandem duplication polymorphism upstream of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4)
Seaman M, Fisher J, Chang F, Kidd K. Tandem duplication polymorphism upstream of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4). American Journal Of Medical Genetics 1999, 88: 705-709. PMID: 10581493, DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19991215)88:6<705::aid-ajmg22>3.0.co;2-f.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAllelesAnimalsCodon, InitiatorConsensus SequenceDatabases, FactualEvolution, MolecularGene FrequencyGenetic VariationGorilla gorillaHumansPan troglodytesPolymorphism, GeneticPongo pygmaeusReceptors, Dopamine D2Receptors, Dopamine D4Response ElementsSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidTandem Repeat SequencesTranscription FactorsMany human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) proviruses are unique to humans
Barbulescu M, Turner G, Seaman M, Deinard A, Kidd K, Lenz J. Many human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) proviruses are unique to humans. Current Biology 1999, 9: 861-s1. PMID: 10469592, DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80390-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOpen reading frameFull-length open reading frameHuman genome todayReading frameFull length HERVGenome todayGenomes of humansCis-acting sequencesHERV-K provirusesViral open reading framesGorilla genomeHuman genomePrimate evolutionMouse mammary tumor virusComplete sequencingHost genomePreintegration siteHuman endogenous retrovirus KGenomeHERV-K proteinsEndogenous retrovirusesMammary tumor virusTumor virusProvirusMultiple provirusesEvolution of the HOXB6 intergenic region: Motif conservation at the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) enhancer element
Deinard A, Dorit R, Castiglione C, Jiang Z, Becker D, Ruddle F, Schugart K, Kidd K. Evolution of the HOXB6 intergenic region: Motif conservation at the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) enhancer element. Journal Of Experimental Zoology 1999, 285: 170-176. PMID: 10440728, DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(19990815)285:2<170::aid-jez9>3.0.co;2-j.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvolution of a HOXB6 intergenic region within the great apes and humans
Deinard A, Kidd K. Evolution of a HOXB6 intergenic region within the great apes and humans. Journal Of Human Evolution 1999, 36: 687-703. PMID: 10330333, DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0298.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCommon ancestorGenetic variationGenetic dataIntraspecific genetic variationHomo-Pan cladeGreat apesNuclear lociGreat ape speciesMolecular evolutionIntraspecific dataPhylogenetic reconstructionIntergenic regionIntraspecific variationDNA sequencesNucleotide substitutionsGenetic polymorphismsHomo-PanPygmy chimpanzeesApe speciesCommon chimpanzeesCladeHomo sapiens sapiensAncestorGorillasLoci
1998
Analyses of Cross Species Polymerase Chain Reaction Products to Infer the Ancestral State of Human Polymorphisms
Iyengar S, Seaman M, Deinard A, Rosenbaum H, Sirugo G, Castiglione C, Kidd J, Kidd K. Analyses of Cross Species Polymerase Chain Reaction Products to Infer the Ancestral State of Human Polymorphisms. Mitochondrial DNA Part A 1998, 8: 317-327. PMID: 10993602, DOI: 10.3109/10425179809034076.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle-strand conformational polymorphismSequence dataUntranslated regionHuman polymorphismsSingle ancestral allelePolymorphic allelesRestriction enzyme sitesAncestral stateExtant populationsGenomic regionsAncestral statusAncestral onesAncestral alleleHuman sequenceHuman allelesStrand conformational polymorphismPCR-RFLPsRestriction fragment length analysisPolymorphic sitesNumerous populationsEnzyme sitesAllelesSpeciesConformational polymorphismPolymerase chain reaction productsEvolution of a D2 Dopamine Receptor Intron Within the Great Apes and Humans
Deinard A, Kidd K. Evolution of a D2 Dopamine Receptor Intron Within the Great Apes and Humans. Mitochondrial DNA Part A 1998, 8: 289-301. PMID: 10993600, DOI: 10.3109/10425179809034074.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDenaturing Gradient Gel ElectrophoresisGenetic variationComparative phylogenetic analysisDNA sequence variationSequence comparative analysisCross-species comparisonsGreat apesEvolutionary relationshipsGradient gel electrophoresisPhylogenetic analysisGeographical rangeSequence variationPygmy chimpanzeesCommon chimpanzeesDNA sequencingDirect DNA sequencingIntronsGel electrophoresisSpeciesChimpanzeesApesSequencingComparative analysisHumansVariation
1992
DNA sequence polymorphism within hominoid species exceeds the number of phylogenetically informative characters for a HOX2 locus.
Ruano G, Rogers J, Ferguson-Smith A, Kidd K. DNA sequence polymorphism within hominoid species exceeds the number of phylogenetically informative characters for a HOX2 locus. Molecular Biology And Evolution 1992, 9: 575-586. PMID: 1352841, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040743.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSeparate speciation eventsDNA sequence polymorphismsMaximum parsimony methodsBase pair differencesDenaturing gradient gelGene treesSpeciation eventsSpecies clustersBase pair substitutionsPhylogenetic treeInformative charactersComplete sequenceSequence polymorphismsHominoid speciesSpecies variabilityDifferent allelesG. gorillaSpeciesP. troglodytesAllelesGradient gelsGorillasSequenceTreesGenus