Chimpanzee genome project - Wikipedia The results of the chimpanzee genome project suggest that when ancestral chromosomes 2A and 2B fused to produce human chromosome 2, no genes were lost from the fused ends of 2A and 2B
Human chromosomes 2, 4 include gene deserts, signs of chimp chromosome . . . Human chromosome 2, the second largest human chromosome, originated during the evolution of Homo sapiens by the merger of two chimpanzee chromosomes recently renamed chimp chromosomes 2a and 2b Other scientists had previously identified the area where the two chromosomes fused together
Pan troglodytes chromosome name table - National Center for . . . This table summarizes the human chromosome naming system (left column) and the original chimpanzee naming system (right column) The NEW numbering system is in the center column of the table and is the one that NCBI uses for chimpanzee RefSeq Sequence records and Map Viewer
The Origin of Human Chromosome 2: Another Look This research suggests that if ancient chimpanzee chromosomes 2A and 2B did indeed undergo a telomere-telomere fusion into human chromosome 2, the likely outcome would have been genetic instability which might possibly lead to cancer
New Human-Chimp Chromosome 2 Data Challenge Common Ancestry Claims This scenario involves the claim that the end-to-end fusion of two small chimpanzee-like chromosomes (now called 2A and 2B in chimpanzees) formed one stable large chromosome in humans (chromosome 2)
Differences between human and chimpanzee genomes and their implications . . . However, there is a major difference corresponding to the human chromosome 2 It has originated due to a fusion of two ancestral acrocentric chromosomes corresponding to chromosomes 2a and 2b in chimpanzee Also, significant pericentric inversions were found in nine other chromosomes [9]
Genomic Structure and Evolution of the Ancestral Chromosome Fusion Site . . . Humans have 46 chromosomes, whereas chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan have 48 This major karyotypic difference was caused by the fusion of two ancestral chromosomes to form human chromosome 2 and subsequent inactivation of one of the two original centromeres (Yunis and Prakash 1982)