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The gorilla genome reveals that our origin is a genetic patchwork

The gorilla Kamilah

An international team of researchers with the participation of researchers from Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, has carried out the first complete sequencing of the gorilla’s genome. The gorilla is the last of four existing species of anthropoid apes to have its genome mapped. The result has just been published in the journal Nature. Read more.