xianghua
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Prove it. Also, please include a definition of orthologous. I have tried to educate you on how the word is used, but it has proven to be a worthless cause. Perhaps you can educate yourself.
lets use your definition: "Orthologous means the base that was inherited from the common ancestor"
the problem with this criteria is that you need to believe in a common descent. so you assume that those insertions arent the result of a common descent- and therefore you conclude that they arent orthologous. it's a subjective claim.
They are random enough that they won't produce the same insertion more than 99% of the time. This is directly observable.
and again; according to this criteria- since there are about milions of deletions and insertions in both chimp and human geneome, they arent in the same position too. unless you can define a limit between an orthologous position and a non orthologous one. can you do that?
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