Patterns in spontaneous mutation revealed by human-baboon sequence comparison.

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We have analyzed the alignment of a long homologous region of the human and baboon genomes (approximately 1.5 Mb). We show that the frequency of gaps between aligned segments decreases slowly with gap length, indicating that several successive nucleotides are often deleted or inserted in one event. By contrast, runs of consecutive mismatches decrease rapidly in frequency with increasing length, following an...

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