"Junk" DNA may not be junk...
Not sure if I posted this here before or not, but still an interesting read.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Salvage prospect for 'junk' DNA
These articles highlight new concepts that are shaking up our understanding of how everything from evolution to neuroscience functions and fits together.
Not sure if I posted this here before or not, but still an interesting read.
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You can find ample background material to what *used to be* "Junk" DNA at
http://wwww.junkdna.com
The International Postgenetics Society formally abandoned this misnomer:
http://www.postgenetics.com
Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diseases caused not by defective "genes" but by glitches in the "junk" DNA:
http://www.junkdna.com/junkdna_diseases.html
For quantitative predictions supported by experimental results of an algorithmic approach, see
http://www.junkdna.com/fractogene/05_simons_pellionisz.pdf
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