That had nothing to do with your “prediction” of greater homology between chimps and gorillas in those regulatory sequences than is between chimps and humans.
It has not been in doubt that gene regulation was the major difference between humans and chimps; it obviously has to be as our proteins are about 99% similar. That doesn’t mean that our bodies will be 99% the same any more than two buildings made with tools that are 99% the same will be built the same way. Our proteins are, after all, just machines.
For example both humans and chimps have a gene for bone elongation, and that gene is 98% the same, and the protein is 99% the same; but our arms and legs are not within 99% the length of each other because of how that gene is expressed in arms and legs (longer arms and shorter legs in the chimp).
This does nothing to address the greater homology between humans and chimps than between chimps and gorillas, as all the regulatory sequences in Chromosome 1 and 2 (97% of each chromosome) are MUCH more similar between humans and chimps (the color RED) than between chimps and gorillas (GREEN).
Look at the map of chromosome 1 and 2 again GGG. What color do you see predominantly? 97% of that represents untranslated DNA sequences, including all regulatory sequences on those chromosomes.
What color do you see GGG?
Is that the long way of you admitting that chimps and humans could not possibly be as similar as their linear DNA suggests? That’s all I have been saying all along. My point is, now that we know that DNA is not read in linear fashion, but is instead transcribed in bits in pieces across many chromosomes and then spliced together, this will likely explain in large measure why chimps are more similar to apes than humans.