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Published online 31 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060828-5
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Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human
From mice to monkeys to chimps to people, a brain-protein gene pumps up.
A newly discovered mystery gene may have helped build the modern human brain, researchers report today.
Scientists don't know what the gene does.
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