Human genes that are of viral origin

syncytin-1 on chromosone 7,
synctin-2 is vital to the construction of the placenta

Giant panda genome sequenced

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The genome has 20 pairs of autosomes,about 2.7 million heterozygous snps,over 2.6 million autosomes,over 260,000 indels

Y chromosomes of uk and Ireland

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Over 60% of British males and almost all Irish males have the r1b1b2 Y chromosome,which was carried by farmers from the Near East(el obeid culture,methinks) who slowly moved across europe about 10,000 years ago,according to research at leicester university.

It peaks in cornwall at 78%

Soybean genome sequenced and genetics

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Researchers have sequenced the 1.1 gigabase genome of the soybean and found nearly 5,000 SNPs(single nucleotide polymorphisms and nearly 900 simple sequence repeats,as well as 20 chromosones,possibly over 46,00 protein-coding loci.

Almost 20,000 introns are shared by poplar and grapevine(they diverged more than 90 million year).

possibly over  1,000 acyl lipid genes

IVF babies have higher risk of defects due to epigentics

Ivf babies are at more risk of diseases such as diabetes and obesity as well as rare metabolic disorders.

These changes are not in tthe genes but in the mechanism that switches genes on and off.

Ancient DNA found in Alaskan soil samples

Researchers took samples from seven permafrost layers  dating from 12,000 to alout 7,500 years ago from a site on the yukon river valley in central alaska.

The researchers reported that they found mitochondrial DNA from bison,horse, mammoth,moose and snowshoe hare.