NEO-DARWINISM JUST DIED: Junk DNA or useful (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, September 07, 2012, 20:02 (4460 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Friday, September 07, 2012, 20:31

A very measured account by a research biologist of the various stories and blogs. But the blogger avoids my point: This is just a first step and DNA holds much more information and complexity. We are at the beginning of the road which will explain how extremely advanced H. sapiens get by with 20,000 genes. Just coding was never the answer. It is the modulation of gene action with 10,000 new active area isolated as triggers.-http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1167-This quote makes my point, from Nature:
"So far, ENCODE has sampled 119 of 1,800 known transcription factors and general components of the transcriptional machinery on a limited number of cell types, and 13 of more than 60 currently known histone or DNA modifications across 147 cell types. DNase I, FAIRE and extensive RNA assays across subcellular fractionations have been undertaken on many cell types, but overall these data reflect a minor fraction of the potential functional information encoded in the human genome. An important future goal will be to enlarge this data set to additional factors, modifications and cell types, complementing the other related projects in this area"-http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7414/full/nature11247.html