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Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 5, 1131-1137, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press

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A fine-scale comparison of the human and chimpanzee genomes: linkage, linkage disequilibrium and sequence analysis

B Crouau-Roy, S Service, M Slatkin and N Freimer
Neurogenetics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco 94143, USA.

We have performed a fine-scale comparative study of the human and chimpanzee genomes, using linkage, linkage disequilibrium and sequence analyses on microsatellite loci spanning a region of approximately 30 cM on human chromosome 4p. Our results extend the findings of previous studies that indicated virtually complete conservation between the human and chimpanzee genomes at the chromosomal and sub-chromosomal level and support the hypothesis, derived from previous analyses of mitochondrial DNA, that chimpanzee populations are more diverse than human ones. By sequencing several human and chimpanzee alleles of two microsatellites we showed that base substitutions that diminish the length of perfect repeats (but do not change allele sizes) are probably responsible for the low heterozygosity of these loci in chimpanzees; our results suggest that the evolutionary history of microsatellites should not be inferred from comparisons of mean allele lengths between populations or species.
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