Construcción y análisis de un mapa de clones comparativo entre humanos y chimpancés

Asao Fujiyama1, Hidemi Watanabe, Atsushi Toyoda

  • 1RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan. afujiyam@gsc.riken.go.jp

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 5, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos mapearon los genomas de humanos y chimpancés para encontrar diferencias genéticas. Esta investigación comparativa de genómica identificó regiones específicas en el cromosoma 21 humano que muestran variaciones significativas entre especies, ofreciendo información sobre la singularidad humana.

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