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One pedigree we all may have come from – did Adam and Eve have the chromosome 2 fusion?

BACKGROUND: In contrast to Great Apes, who have 48 chromosomes, modern humans and likely Neandertals and Denisovans have and had, respectively, 46 chromosomes. The reduction in chromosome number was caused by the head-to-head fusion of two ancestral chromosomes to form human chromosome 2 (HSA2) and...

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Autor principal: Stankiewicz, Paweł
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27708712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13039-016-0283-3