Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates

A very recent discovery in field of genetics and evolution pinpoints why human and non-human primates are different, although many similarity are obvious in activity of genes. Using three primate species (human, chimpanzee and rhesus macaque), Professor Adam Siepel's team investigates which promoters and enhancers regulate a gene in a single CD4+ T cells of the immune system, and reports fascinating differences in the ways that genes are regulated. Another great approach while trying to understand behavioral and morphological differences in evolutionary process.

Link: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-evolving-gene-differences-primates.html

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