For the first time, an international research team has decoded the genome of six primary types. The new methods offer deeper insights into the genetics of the animals and provide proof of how pathogens can skip people.
With the new research results, the entire genetic material of Schimpanse, Bonobo, Gorilla, Borneo and Sumatra-Orang-Utan and the Siamang, as the University of Hamburg announced on Thursday, was available.
According to the information, the genome sequences have a very low error percentage. On average it is less than one error per 500,000 base pairs. A total of 215 chromosomes were deciphered without gaps. People’s genome was decoded in 2001. Since then, there has always been a hard time decoding. Previously, earlier studies have had gaps.
Trace also leads to people
Success has now been achieved with the help of new sequencing and analysis methods, as it was said. Earlier analyzes could have been considerably refined with the new data. This data makes a better understanding of the genetic relationship of these species possible, but also their resemblance to people.
“With this new genome data, which represent the blueprint of all body cells, we can now better investigate why some pathogens can skip more easily for other species – and therefore also to people,” explains Mitar Tobias Lenz from Hamburg University.
The study appeared in the magazine “Nature”. The scientist Evan Eichler of the University of Washington in the United States had management.
Source: Krone
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