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Comparative primate genomics: the year of the chimpanzee
1Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ruvulo@fas.harvard.edu
Abstract:
This is the year of the chimpanzee genome. Chimpanzee chromosome 22 has been sequenced and soon will be followed by the whole genome, and thousands of chimpanzee cDNA sequences are available for comparative analysis. Not only does this genomic information allow us to identify human-specific changes in particular genes that are potentially under selection, but also to understand molecular evolutionary dynamics characterizing the two most closely related mammalian genomes sequenced so far. Studies comparing gene expression in chimpanzees and other closely related primates reveal significant species differences in brain, liver and fibroblasts. New empirical data, in combination with models of speciation, are giving insight into how humans and chimpanzees speciated.
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