Revised time estimation of the ancestral human chromosome 2 fusion
Revised time estimation of the ancestral human chromosome 2 fusion
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London: BioMed Central
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Background The reduction of the chromosome number from 48 in the Great Apes to 46 in modern humans is thought to result from the end-to-end fusion of two ancestral non-human primate chromosomes forming the human chromosome 2 (HSA2). Genomic signatures of this event are the presence of inverted telomeric repeats at the HSA2 fusion site and a block o...
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Revised time estimation of the ancestral human chromosome 2 fusion
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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1940433a3fcf49dfba467160f401a600
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1940433a3fcf49dfba467160f401a600
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1471-2164
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1471-2164
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10.1186/s12864-022-08828-7
