[luvbach1]

The researchers found that 99.7 percent of the Neanderthal genome is identical to modern humans. Both Neanderthal and modern human genomes are 99.8 percent identical to that of chimpanzees.

Let me see, that means modern humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than to Neanderthals.

[JimSEA]

Recent comparisons of chimp and human DNA have backed off due to better sequencing to at most 98.5% and at the least 96%, plus, you have the difference of 23 chromosome pairs in humans and 24 in chimps. Neanderthal is a lot closer to us at 99.7 to 99.8 %.