{
  "id": 7076243,
  "title": "Identifying human-specific transcription factor binding site gains and losses that contribute to human-specific phenotypes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/identifying-human-specific-transcription-factor-binding-site-gains",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.06.747930v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Identifying the genetic changes responsible for human-specific traits remains a central challenge in evolutionary genomics. Although thousands of modern human-specific variants have been identified through comparisons with Neanderthal, Denisovan, and great ape genomes, the phenotypic consequences of most of these changes remain unknown, particularly for non-coding variants. Here, we predicted…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}