DNA chunks, chimps and humans
Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 09:21
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the two lineages. The study, published in Genome Research, is the first to compare many human and chimpanzee genomes in the same fashion.
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