ISSN:
1824-310X
Keywords:
human-specific DNAs
;
specres uniqueness
;
genome subtraction
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract Recent studies on molecular evolution using nucleotide sequence data to clarify phylogenetic relationships among humans and the African great apes, have revealed that humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than to gorillas. However, the genetic basis of human uniqueness remains unclear. This is because phylogenetic studies have merely evaluated the degree of similarity by calculating the accumulation of nucleotide substitutions that have occurred in neutral DNA regions commonly present in all the species examined. In contrast, the genome subtraction method recently developed by us has revealed dissimilarity even among the genomes of the most closely related species. Here we describe the characteristics of the DNA sequences obtained by genome subtraction between humans and chimpanzees.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02437515
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