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Humans and chimpanzees share approximately 98.8% of their genomes.

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Is it true that humans and chimpanzees share approximately 98.8% of their genomes?

Yes. Multiple scholarly sources substantiate that humans and chimpanzees share roughly 98% to 99% of their genomic sequences.

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Semantic Scholar peS2o: Differences between human and chimpanzee genomes and their implications in gene expression, protein functions and biochemical properties of the two species
This text notes that human-specific single nucleotide alterations constitute 1.23% of human DNA, implying a ~98.77% similarity.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: Differences between human and chimpanzee genomes and their implications in gene expression, protein functions and biochemical properties of the two species. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12864-020-06962-8

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PubMed / MEDLINE: PubMed: Human (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) share similar ancestral centromeric alpha satellite DNA sequences but other fractions of heterochromatin differ considerably.
This item states that euchromatic regions of the chimpanzee genome share approximately 98% sequence similarity with humans.
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PubMed / MEDLINE: PubMed: Human (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) share similar ancestral centromeric alpha satellite DNA sequences but other fractions of heterochromatin differ considerably.. (n.d.). PubMed / MEDLINE. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7726296/

PLOS (all journals): Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Human NPHP1 Locus Reveal Complex Genomic Architecture and Its Regional Evolution in Primates
This item explicitly notes that the sequence identity of human versus chimpanzee is 99%.
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PLOS (all journals): Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Human NPHP1 Locus Reveal Complex Genomic Architecture and Its Regional Evolution in Primates. (n.d.). PLOS (all journals). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005686

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