Editing Gorilla (section)

=== Genome sequencing ===
The gorilla became the next-to-last great ape genus to have its genome sequenced. The first gorilla genome was generated with short read and Sanger sequencing using DNA from a female western lowland gorilla named Kamilah. This gave scientists further insight into the evolution and origin of humans. Despite the chimpanzees being the closest extant relatives of humans, 15% of the human genome was found to be more like that of the gorilla.<ref>{{Cite news |first=K. |last=Kelland |date=7 March 2012 |title=Gorilla genome sheds new light on human evolution |newspaper=Reuters |access-date=8 March 2012 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gorilla-genome-sheds-new-light-human-idUSTRE8261VA20120307 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308012545/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-gorilla-genome-sheds-new-light-human-idUSTRE8261VA20120307 |archive-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> In addition, 30% of the gorilla genome "is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other; this is rarer around coding genes, indicating pervasive selection throughout great ape evolution, and has functional consequences in gene expression."<ref>{{cite journal |first1=A. |last1=Scally |display-authors=3 |year=2012 |title=Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence |journal=Nature |volume=483 |pages=169–175 |doi=10.1038/nature10842 |pmid=22398555 |issue=7388 |pmc=3303130 |bibcode=2012Natur.483..169S |last2=Dutheil |first2=J. Y. |last3=Hillier |first3=L. W. |last4=Jordan |first4=G. E. |last5=Goodhead |first5=I. |last6=Herrero |first6=J. |last7=Hobolth |first7=A. |last8=Lappalainen |first8=T. |last9=Mailund |first9=T. |last10=Marques-Bonet |first10=T. |last11=McCarthy |first11=S. |last12=Montgomery |first12=S. H. |last13=Schwalie |first13=P. C. |last14=Tang |first14=Y. A. |last15=Ward |first15=M. C. |last16=Xue |first16=Y. |last17=Yngvadottir |first17=B. |last18=Alkan |first18=C. |last19=Andersen |first19=L. N. |last20=Ayub |first20=Q. |last21=Ball |first21=E. V. |last22=Beal |first22=K. |last23=Bradley |first23=B. J. |last24=Chen |first24=Y. |last25=Clee |first25=C. M. |last26=Fitzgerald |first26=S. |last27=Graves |first27=T. A. |last28=Gu |first28=Y. |last29=Heath |first29=P. |last30=Heger |first30=A. |url=https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:32177/ATTACHMENT01 |hdl=10261/80788}}</ref> Analysis of the gorilla genome has cast doubt on the idea that the rapid evolution of hearing genes gave rise to language in humans, as it also occurred in gorillas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=K. |date=7 March 2012 |title=Gorilla joins the genome club |journal=Nature |url=http://www.nature.com/news/gorilla-joins-the-genome-club-1.10185 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309060208/http://www.nature.com/news/gorilla-joins-the-genome-club-1.10185 |archive-date=9 March 2012 |doi=10.1038/nature.2012.10185 |s2cid=85141639|doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[File:Gorillas in Ueno Zoo - 2009 Aug.webm|thumb|Several western lowland gorillas in captivity in [[Japan]], 2009]]