SOOJIN YI

Publications

2008

  • Elango, N. and Yi, S. (2008). DNA methylation and structural and functional bimodality of vertebratet promoters. to appear in, Molecular Biology and Evolution. [preprint]

  • Elango, N., Kim, S-H., NISC Comparative Sequencing Group, Vigoda, E. and Yi, S. (2008). Mutations of different molecular origins exhibit contrasting patterns of regional substitution rate variation. PLoS Computational Biology 4:(2) e1000015. [Open Access Full Text, PDF]

  • Warden, C. D., Kim, S-H. and Yi, S. (2008). Predicted functional RNAs within coding regions constrain evolutionary rates of yeast proteins. PLoS One 3:(2) e1559. [Open Access Full Text, PDF]

  • Kim, S-H. and Yi, S. (2008). Mammalian nonsynonymous sites are not overdispersed: Comparative genomic analysis of index of dispersion of mammalian proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25:(2) 634-642. [Abstract, PDF]

    2007

  • Yi, S. (2007). Understanding neutral genomic molecular clocks. Evolutionary Biology, 34: 144-151. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Kim, S-H. and Yi, S. (2007). Understanding relationship between sequence and functional evolution in yeast proteins. Genetica, 131: 151-156. [Abstract] [PDF, Supplementary Material]

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  • Yi, S. and W-H. Li. (2007). Episodic molecular evolution of some protein hormones in primates and its implications for primate adaptation. In, Ravosa, M. J. and, M. Dagosto. Eds. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York, NY, USA. pp. 739-773.

    2006

  • Kim, S.-H.*, Elango, N.*, Warden, C., Vigoda, E., and Yi, S. (2006). Heterogenous genomic molecular clocks in primates. PLoS Genetics, 2: e163. * equal contribution [Full Text, PDF]

  • Yi, S. (2006). Non-adaptive evolution of genome complexity. BioEssays, 28: 979-982. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Elango, N., J. W. Thomas, NISC Comparative Sequencing Group, and Yi, S. (2006). Variable molecular clocks in hominoids. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103: 1370-1375. [Abstract] [PDF, Supplementary Material]

  • Kim, S.-H., and Yi, S. (2006). Correlated asymmetry between sequence and functional divergence of duplicate proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23: 1068-1075. [Abstract] [PDF, Supplementary Material]

    2005

  • Yi, S. and J. T. Streelman. (2005). Genome size is negatively correlated with effective population size in ray-finned fishes. Trends in Genetics, 21: 643-646. [Abstract] [PDF, Supplementary Material]

  • Yi, S. and W-H. Li. (2005). Molecular evolution of recombination hotspots and highly recombining pseudoautosomal regions in hominoids. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 1223-1230. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Bartolome, C., Maside, X. Yi, S., Grant, A. L., and B. Charlesworth. (2005). Patterns of selection on synonymous and non-synonymous variants in Drosophila miranda. Genetics, 169: 1495-1507. [Abstract] [PDF]

    2000-2004

  • Yi, S., Summers, T. J., Pearson, N. M., and W-H. Li.  (2004). Recombination has little effect on the rate of sequence divergence in pseudoautosomal boundary 1 among humans and great apes. Genome Research, 14: 37-43. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Yi, S. (2003). Synonymous and nonsynonymous rates. pp. In, Cooper, D. N. et al. Eds. Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Nature Publishing Group Reference. New York, NY, USA. [Abstract]

  • Yi, S. and B. Charlesworth.  (2003). Unusual pattern of single nucleotide polymorphisms at the exuperantia2 locus of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetical Research. 82: 101-106. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Yi, S., Bachtrog, D. and B. Charlesworth.  (2003). A survey of chromosomal and nucleotide sequence variation in Drosophila miranda. Genetics. 164: 1369-1381. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Li, W-H. and Yi, S. (2002). Molecular evolution. pp. 750-756 In, Pagel, M. at al. Eds. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Vol II. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. USA. [Abstract]

  • Yi, S., Ellsworth, D. and W-H. Li.  (2002). Slow molecular clocks in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 2192-2198. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Li, W-H., Yi, S. and K. D. Makova. (2002). Male-driven evolution. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development. 12: 650-656. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Yi, S., Bernat, B., Pal, G., Kossiakoff, A. and W-H. Li.  (2002). Functional promiscuity of squirrel monkey growth hormone receptor toward both primate and nonprimate growth hormones. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1083-1092. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Yi, S. and B. Charlesworth.  (2000). A selective sweep associated with a recent gene transposition in Drosophila miranda. Genetics. 156: 1753-1763. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • Yi, S. and B. Charlesworth.  (2000). Contrasting patterns of molecular evolution of genes on the new and old sex chromosomes of Drosophila miranda. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 703-717. [Abstract] [PDF]