danby t1_isis6zk wrote
Reply to comment by Fmatosqg in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa
> So if a gene/allele gets moved to a different place, it still counts as no difference.
Definitely not. Translocation often leads to or implies different expression of genes. As an aside many, many translocations over large amounts of evolutionary time can lead to things like chromosome loss and/or speciation events. These are important forms of genetic change/mutation that do lead to important functional change. And they do make genomes quite different in ways that aren't measurable by simple percentages.
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