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Nature 446, 840 (19 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446840a; Published online 18 April 2007

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Macaque genome sequence provides sideways look at human disease.

Rhesus macaques can't claim the distinction of being humanity's closest cousins, nor of ever having been popularized by Jane Goodall. But the newly completed analysis of the macaque's genome could prove just as important as that of the chimpanzee's, scientists say.