[Blood of Tyrants]

Chimpanzees are thought to be the closest evolutionary relative to humans, and we share around 98 percent of our genes with these primates.

More recent studies say the number is around 90%. And when we are talking about 10% difference in literally billions of genes, that is a lot of difference.

[Scythian]

Doesn’t matter, Cancer has nothing to do with genes but I hear what you’re saying

[allmendream]

As usual journalists don't know anything about science (or much else).

Our genes (DNA that codes for proteins) are 98% the same as a chimpanzee. We share over 99% of the same genes in common (i.e. if you find a gene in a human it is over 99% likely to be in a chimp as well, but the “same” gene will be around 2% different on average). Over the entire genome we are about 94% the same as chimpanzees (i.e. including both genetic and non-genetic DNA).