[Genome] what about the NM accession number of Chimpanzee

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Dear collegue:

I am downloading the promoter sequences of chimpanzee, from "Table browser". I just wonder why the NM accession number of every sequence in the FASTA format is that from human? For example, one of the chimpanzee upstream sequence names is ">panTro2_refGene_NM_002600 range=chr1:66940236-66948235 5'pad=0 3'pad=0 revComp=FALSE strand=+ repeatMasking=lower", in which NM_002600 is the NM accession No. for human instead of chimpanzee. Does it mean this gene of chimpanzee is a homolog of NM_002600 in human?

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Lei Hou
 Graduate student, Jing-Dong Jackie Han's Lab
 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
 Chinese Academy of Sciences
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