National Institutes of Health (NIH): Analysis of Rhesus Monkey Genome Uncovers Genetic Differences with Humans, Chimps DNA Comparison Provides New Clues to Primate Biology

An international consortium of researchers has published the genome sequence of the rhesus macaque monkey and aligned it with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Published April 13 in a special section of the journal Science, the analysis reveals that the three primate species share about 93 percent of their DNA, yet have some significant differences among their genes.>>> Discuss This Story

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