Mouse and Human Genetic Similarities

image credit: U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program, http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis.

caption: This figure demonstrated the genetic similarity (homology) of the superficially dissimilar mouse and human species. The similarity is such that human chromosomes can be cut (schematically at least) into about 150 pieces (only about 100 are large enough to appear here), then reassembled into a reasonable approximation of the mouse genome. The colors and corresponding numbers on the mouse chromosomes indicate the human chromosomes containing homologous segments.

For more on comparative genomic research, see our Functional and Comparative Genomics Webpage.

This image originally appeared in the 1997 DOE Human Genome Program Report.

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