The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

Sequencing of the bonobo genome shows that more than three per cent of the human genome is more closely related to either the bonobo genome or the chimpanzee genome than those genomes are to each other. The chimpanzee and the bonobo are our species' two closest living relatives. This paper reports the genome sequence of the bonobo, the last ape to be sequenced. Comparative genomic analyses reveal that more than 3% of the human genome is more closely related to either the bonobo or the chimpanzee genome than these are to each other. The results shed light on the ancestry of the two ape species and might eventually help us to understand the genetic basis of phenotypes that humans share with one or the other ape…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: 0754461
• HH
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• OC
  Ohio Cancer Research Associates

  Award: GRT00024299
• OS
  Ohio State University
• OC
  Ohio Cancer Research

  Award: GRT00024299
• WT
  Wellcome Trust

  Awards: 090532, 090532/Z/09/Z, 090532/Z/09/
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  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• DF
  Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond
• MD
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
• MF
  Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: HG002385
• NH
  National Human Genome Research Institute
• OO
  Office of International Science and Engineering