New limits to functional portion of human genome reported

Friday, July 14, 2017 - 11:22 in Biology & Nature

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional. That is in stark contrast to suggestions by scientists with the ENCODE project that as much as 80 percent of the genome is functional.

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