Generation of a Panel of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Chimpanzees: a Resource for Comparative Functional Genomics
Irene Gallego Romero, Bryan J. Pavlovic, Irene Hernando-Herraez, Nicholas E. Banovich, Courtney L. Kagan, Jonathan E. Burnett, Constance H. Huang, Amy Mitrano, Claudia I. Chavarria, Inbar Friedrich Ben-Nun, Yingchun Li, Karen Sabatini, Trevor Leonardo, Mana Parast, Tomas Marques-Bonet, , Yoav Gilad
The paper generates a panel of chimpanzee iPSCs and compares their regulatory variation with somatic cells and human iPSCs, finding reduced species-specific differences in iPSCs.
bioRxiv · Sep 8, 2014 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology