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Primate genomes for biomedicine

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Genome sequences are now available for two macaque species used in infectious disease research and drug safety testing.

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Figure 1: Sequenced primate genomes.

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  1. Steven E. Bosinger and Zachary P. Johnson are at the Non-Human Primate Genomics Core, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA,

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  2. Guido Silvestri is at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,

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Bosinger, S., Johnson, Z. & Silvestri, G. Primate genomes for biomedicine. Nat Biotechnol 29, 983–984 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2032

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