Synteny block organization of Macaca mulatta

as part of the Science paper of April 13, 2007 (316:243-246).

MMU*
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
X
HSA 1 3 7/21 6 4 5 15/14 8 10 20/22 12 2q 2p 11 9 17 13 18 19 16 X

HSA
1
2p
 2q
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
X
MMU*
1
 12
2
5
6
4
3
8
9
3
X

IMPORTANT NOTE
Chromosomes are arranged with the short arm up. This rule has not been followed by the Macaque Consortium, so that the sequences of macaque chromosomes 1 (1), 2 (3), 4 (6), 10 (20/22), 13 (2p), and 18 (18) (human in parenthesis) appear in opposite orientation.

Macaque karyotype (compared to humans)

Macaque-Human rearrangements (summary table)

Neocentromeres in macaque and human

HSA
1
2p
 2q
3
3
6
6
9
11
11
13
14
15
18
 21
MMU
1
 12
2
2
4
4
14
7a
7b
 3

 
 Macaque or human chromosome with a neocentromere.
 
 In the other species the corresponding euchromatic region represents the ancestral situation before the neocentromere seeding.

Bibliography

HSA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
12
17
18
19
21
22
X

Note

Some authors use an alternative nomenclature (MMUa), reported in the following table. Differences are in bold.

HSA
1
2p
 2q
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
X
MMU*
1
13
 12
2
5
6
4
3
8
15
9
14
11
17
7a
7b
20
16
18
19
10
3
10
X
MMUa
1
9
 15
3
4
5
6
2
8
14
10
11
12
16
7a
7b
20
17
18
19
13
2
13
X

* MMU nomenclature according to Rogers et al. (Genomics 87:30-38, 2006).