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New Rhesus Macaque Reference Genome Holds Potential for Human Disease, Evolution Research

Dec 17, 2020
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Christie Rizk

NEW YORK – A team of researchers from around the US has developed an updated reference genome assembly of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) — the most widely used nonhuman primate (NHP) model in biomedical research — finding new lineage-specific genes and expanded gene families that could be informative in studies of evolution and human disease.

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