Reposted by Riley Mangan
Nature research paper: The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton
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The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton - Nature
Massively parallel reporter assays and human–ape hybrid skeletal cells are used to study the evolution of human cis-regulatory elements (CREs), revealing how differences in CREs have shaped the composition of human skeletal tissue.