Yizhi Yan

First author; PhD student in the Kyoto-McGill International Collaborative Program in Genomic Medicine

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First atlas of functional DNA changes explains why humans get arthritis far more than apes

PhD student at Kyoto University and McGill University

A new genetic atlas shows which DNA differences between humans and great apes actually matter, and it exposes a trade-off. The changes that shaped the human skeleton also left human cartilage with about a third of the cushioning molecules that apes have.

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