Genes that “jump” can rewire neuronal function in the brain – AlKhaleej Today

Through, the misunderstanding
With the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and technological advances in our ability to sequence DNA, great advances have been made in our understanding of genomics over the past few decades. For many years, however, a large portion of the genome (~ 97%) was dismissed and mistakenly labeled junk because it did not encode proteins. While some research groups pondered the role of this mysterious part of the genome, most genomic research in the 1990s focu…

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