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Nuclear mitochondrial sequences in great ape Telomere-to-Telomere genomes
18 Aug 2026
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial sequences have integrated into the nuclear genome since the origin of eukaryotes. Recent insertions that retain homology to extant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), termed NUMTs, confound mtDNA sequence analysis. Here, we use great ape Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) genomes to study NUMTs in bonobo, chimpanzee, human, gorilla, and Bornean and Sumatran orangutans. A phylogeny based on shared and...
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