Most of your DNA is junk after all

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3135, 2017, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After 20 years of biologists arguing that most of the human genome must have some kind of function, it now seems that, because of the way evolution works, the vast majority of our DNA has to be useless--a suggestion that contradicts claims from prominent researchers. When people first worked out how the bases of DNA function as a blueprint for making proteins, it was assumed that almost all DNA codes for proteins. However, by the 19705, it became clear that only a tiny proportion of a genome encodes proteins--about one per cent in the case of humans