The genome of chimpanzees and gorillas could help to better understand human tumors
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 11:50
in Biology & Nature
A new study by researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of UPF and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), shows that, surprisingly, the distribution of mutations in human tumours is more similar to that of chimpanzees and gorillas than that of other types of genetic mutations in humans.