Junk DNA: goodbye!: Gene control (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 15:50 (3595 days ago) @ David Turell

7.5% of non-genic (junk DNA) controls genes and makes us human:-https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-evolution-tied-small-fraction-genome-"Only about 7.5 percent of the human genetic instruction book shaped the evolution of human traits, a new study suggests. And it's often not genes, but the how-to instructions for using those genes that are most important, researchers report January 19 in Nature Genetics.-"Those findings emerged from a new method of analyzing how natural selection has tinkered with the genome since humans split from chimpanzees.-“Remarkably we use nearly the same building blocks as chimpanzees, but we end up with very different results,” says Brad Gulko, a computer scientist at Cornell University."-.......-"Researchers have developed a new computational approach to understanding which single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome might have conferred species-specific advantages. Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues found that many such point mutations related to human evolution actually reside in noncoding regions of the genome."-http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41948/title/Fraction-of-SNPs-Can-Affect-Fitness/