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Viva La Difference

There has been much talk about the commonality between the human genome and that of other animals. Fir instance, human and chimpanzee genomes are 96% identical. Yet, that 4% is a lot of difference:

...it is the differences between the species�as many as 3 million of which fall in functional areas of the genomes�on which research now focuses.

According to the main study, the catalog of genetic differences includes about 35 million single-nucleotide changes, 5 million insertion/deletion events, and a number of other chromosomal rearrangements.

Yep, that should keep those researchers busy for a while.

Posted by Steve on September 1, 2005