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A graduate student from New York University has found a gene that may be the reason humans and other great apes are missing tails. The gene is a short DNA insertion called an Alu element. Alu sequence... View More
‘Jumping gene’ may have erased tails in humans and other apes—and boosted our risk of birth defects
Adding mobile DNA sequence to developmental gene short-circuits tail development in mice
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