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Scientists Identify Gene Difference Between Humans and Chimps

August 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment

The DNA sequences of humans and chimpanzees are 98 percent identical. Yet that 2 percent difference represents at least 15 million changes in our genome since the time of our common ancestor roughly six million years ago. Now a new computational technique has identified 49 regions that have changed particularly quickly between humans and chimps.

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