Separate Studies Converge on Human-Chimp DNA Dissimilarity.
Since the original 2005 chimpanzee genome paper, additional redundant coverage has been added to the rough draft assembly of the chimpanzee genome as stated at the web site for the Genome Institute at Washington University—one of the lead sequencing centers on the project. The present chimpanzee genome assembly now includes a total.
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Recent research has demonstrated that humans and their near cousins Neanderthals once interbred. After analysing chimpanzee genomes, the authors of a new paper, to which members of the Scally Group contributed, reveal that chimpanzees and bonobos once did the same.
The paper, arriving a year and a half after the chimp draft, is accompanied by a cluster of studies in Science, Genome Research, and Nature that use this powerful comparative tool to assess gene-expression patterns across different organs, test a prevailing theory about Y-chromosome evolution, and find elements and mediators of genomic variation.
Since the original 2005 chimpanzee genome paper, additional redundant coverage has been added to the rough draft assembly of the chimpanzee genome as stated at the web site for the Genome Institute at Washington University—one of the lead sequencing centers on the project.
An approximately 5-fold genome coverage would have been obtained through the range of data sets completed through 2004, which would largely correspond with the data represented in the 2005 chimpanzee genome paper and the first initial draft of the chimpanzee genome. Therefore, these data were compared with those completed after 2004.
Unfortunately, the research paper describing the 2005 chimp draft genome avoided the problem of overall average genome similarity with humans by analyzing the regions of the genomes that were already known to be highly similar. This cherry-picking deceptively reinforced the mythical 98% similarity notion.