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

by David Turell , Saturday, September 08, 2012, 01:23 (4460 days ago) @ David Turell


> 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"
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7414/full/nature11247.html-Another blogger objects, but the key is still that only a tiny portion of DNA has been studied. Junk DNA is not gone and there always will be some, but no one at this juncture knows how much is junk and how much has some function:-http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/09/07/reports-of-junk-dnas-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/