Human-chimp evolutionary divergence: Methylation and gene sequence co-evolved, study suggests
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists published the first quantitative evidence supporting the notion that genome-wide "bookmarking" of DNA with methyl molecules -- a process called methylation -- and underlying DNA sequences have co-evolved in a kind of molecular slow-dance over the 6 million years since humans and chimps diverged from a common ancestor.