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Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains

2025-12-12

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Over the past 5–7 million years, humans and chimpanzees have diverged in brain size, structural complexity, and cognitive abilities despite high conservation of protein-coding genes. Notably, the endogenization and proliferation of retroviral infections within host genomes has introduced numerous species-specific regulatory elements that have the potential to influence gene regulation. However, the role of these e...

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Literature Corpus work: 257a3586-109f-5dd6-abb3-626196412f73
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.12.693858

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