Saturday 6 September 2014

Ovarian Cancer Oncogene Found in 'Junk DNA' by Penn Research Team

Over the years researchers have been searching genomes for links between genetic alterations and cancer. Most of those studies have focused on the portion of the human genome that encodes protein - a fraction that accounts for just 2 percent of human DNA overall. Yet the vast majority of genomic alterations associated with cancer lie outside protein-coding genes, in what traditionally has been derided as "junk DNA." Researchers today know that "junk DNA" is anything ...

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