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Quick question regarding Neanderthals and genetic relation

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05-21-2010 9:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by CosmicAtheist
05-21-2010 2:45 AM

I'm not completely sure. But i believe the 99.5% refers to similarities in gene location on the genome. The allele combinations that humans carry is different than neanderthals but the location of the genes within the DNA is 99.5% similar.
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I don't believe that they are saying that humans and neanderthals have 99.5% of the same basepair sequence.
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