Our complex genetic information can be sliced in many ways, but one common divisor is between coding and non-coding DNA. As their name suggests ... but with slight differences that allow a “best match ...

That hypothesis was first proposed in 1975 by researchers who noted that differences were rare between the protein-coding DNA of people ... whether four other human, noncoding genes that have ...

Gender differences and sexual preferences are frequently a point of conversation. What produces the differences between men and ... more and more of these non-coding genes, some of which have ...

This mysterious, tightly packed section of the vast, non-coding section ... showed that differences in the heterochromatin exist, confirming that the junk DNA is not stagnant as researchers ...

and the DFE differs between coding and non-coding DNA. Despite these differences between species and genomic regions, some general principles have emerged: advantageous mutations are rare ...

the link between the two phenomena remains unclear. DNA molecules contain coding regions—the genes that code for proteins—and ...

A new review article published in Genes & Diseases explores the intricate relationship between non-coding RNAs and oxidative ...

Much of the "junk" DNA in Drosophila shows signs of either negative or positive selection, according to a study in this week's Nature. An analysis by Peter Andolfatto of the University of California, ...

In particular, the inflammasome, Toll-like receptor 9 and other pattern recognition receptors able to respond to cytoplasmic DNA were upregulated. Several key differences in the nature of the ...

One-letter difference ... waste -- 'junk DNA' without a function. Vaccine against tuberculosis We now know that this 'junk DNA', hereafter referred to as the non-coding genome, is indeed very ...

Most of these risk variants, however, are found within non-coding regions—parts of DNA that do not encode for proteins—whose function in disease development has been poorly understood.