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Human DNA closer to rats than cats
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 — A comparison of human DNA to 12 other animals shows we share more than our genes and helps show that people are more closely related to rats than to cats, scientists reported on Wednesday. The survey also adds to the argument that so-called “junk” DNA is nothing of the sort, but must do something important because it stays virtually identical across many species.
“It provides some pretty definitive evidence that we are indeed closer to rodents than we are to carnivores,” Dr. Eric Green, scientific director of the NHGRI and leader of the study, said in a telephone interview. “Our data really puts the nail in the case. In the sequence you can find changes in the genome that clearly occurred in both humans and rodents but did not occur in others.”
