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Yong Edward Zhang

Institute:

University of Chicago, Ecology and Evolution

University of Chicago, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research Interests:

- Lineage-specific evolution with respect to gene gain
- Evolution of sex chromosome

Publications: (*: Equal contribution)

Zhang, Y.E., Vibranovski, M.D., Krinsky, B.H. and Long, M. (2011) A cautionary note for the retrocopy identification: DNA-based duplication of intron-containing genes significantly contributes to the origination of single exon genes, Bioinformatics, In Print.
Chen, Z.X., Zhang, YE, Vibranovski, M., Luo, J., Gao, G. and Long, M. (2011) Deficiency of X-linked inverted duplicates with male-biased expression and the underlying evolutionary mechanisms in the Drosophila genome, Mol Biol Evol, In Print.
Chen S, Zhang YE, Long M (2010) New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science 330, 1682-1685..
Zhang YE, Vibranovski MD, Krinsky BH, Long M (2010) Age-dependent chromosomal distribution of male-biased genes in Drosophila. Genome Res 20: 1526-1533.
Zhang YE, Vibranovski MD, Landback P, Marais GAB, Long M (2010) Chromosomal Redistribution of Male-Biased Genes in Mammalian Evolution with Two Bursts of Gene Gain on the X Chromosome. PLoS Biol 8: e1000494.
Li CY, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Cao C, Zhang PW, et al. (2010) A human-specific de novo protein-coding gene associated with human brain functions. PLoS Comput Biol 6: e1000734. pdf
Raleigh DR, Marchiando AM*, Zhang Y*, Shen L, Sasaki H, et al. (2010) Tight junction-associated MARVEL proteins marveld3, tricellulin, and occludin have distinct but overlapping functions. Mol Biol Cell 21: 1200-1213. pdf
Zhang Y, Lu S, Zhao S, Zheng X, Long M, et al. (2009) Positive selection for the male functionality of a co-retroposed gene in the hominoids. BMC Evol Biol 9: 252. pdf
Zhu Z, Zhang Y, Long M (2009) Extensive structural renovation of retrogenes in the evolution of the Populus genome. Plant Physiol 151: 1943-1951. pdf
Vibranovski MD, Zhang Y, Long M (2009) General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus. Genome Res 19: 897-903. pdf
Fan, C.*, Zhang, Y.*, Yu, Y.*, Rounsley, S., Long, M. and Wing, R.A. (2008) The Subtelomere of Oryza sativa Chromosome 3 Short Arm as a Hot Bed of New Gene Origination in Rice. Mol Plant, ssn050. pdf
Li, J.-T., Zhang, Y., Kong, L., Liu, Q.-R. and Wei, L. (2008) Trans-natural antisense transcripts including noncoding RNAs in 10 species: implications for expression regulation. Nucl. Acids Res., gkn470. pdf
Kong, L., Zhang, Y., Ye, Z., Wei, L. and Gao, G. (2007) CPC: assess transcript protein-coding potential by sequence features. Nucleic Acids Res., 35, W345–W349. pdf
Zhang, Y., Li, J., Kong, L., Gao, G., Liu, Q.R. and Wei, L. (2007) NATsDB: Natural Antisense Transcripts DataBase. Nucleic Acids Res., 35, D156-161. pdf
Zhang, W.*, Zhang, Y.*, Zheng, H.*, Zhang, C., Xiong, W., Olyarchuk, J.G., Walker, M., Xu, W., Zhao, M., Zhao, S. et al. (2007) SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology. Nucleic Acids Res., 35, D737-741. pdf
Zhang, Y., Liu, X.S., Liu, Q.R. and Wei, L. (2006) Genome-wide in silico identification and analysis of cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in ten species. Nucleic Acids Res., 34, 3465-3475. pdf
Chen, Y.*, Zhang, Y.*, Yin, Y., Gao, G., Li, S., Jiang, Y., Gu, X. and Luo, J. (2005) SPD--a web-based secreted protein database. Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D169-173. pdf
Yin, Y.B., Zhang, Y., Yu, P., Luo, J.C., Jiang, Y. and Li, S.G. (2005) Comparative study of apoptosis-related gene loci in human, mouse and rat genomes. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai), 37, 341-348. pdf
Zhang, Y., Yin, Y., Chen, Y., Gao, G., Yu, P., Luo, J. and Jiang, Y. (2003) PCAS--a precomputed proteome annotation database resource. BMC Genomics, 4, 42. pdf
Ghen, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, J.M., Huang, Y., Luo, J.C., Wu, C.H. and Gu, X.C. (2003) GPCEG-A database for genomic polymorphism of Chinese ethnic groups. Acta genetica Sinica, 30, 509-514. pdf

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