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What Drives Our Genes? Researchers Map The First Complete Human Epigenome

ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2009) — Although the human genome sequence faithfully lists (almost) every single DNA base of the roughly 3 billion bases that make up a human genome, it doesn't tell biologists much about how its function is regulated. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute provide the first detailed map of the human epigenome, the layer of genetic control beyond the regulation inherent in the sequence of the genes themselves.

 

What Drives Our Genes? Researchers Map The First Complete Human Epigenome

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