Hmmm? What was I making it out to be? Anyway, it highlights what previous measurements of the difference were based on-only single based substitutions between the two.
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But the technique only picks up a particular type of variation, called a single base substitution. These occur whenever a single "letter" differs in corresponding strands of DNA from the two species.
As they only compared about 0.3% of the DNA, they only glanced at the differences. Also, there are much greater differences in gene expression and other epigenetic factors.