Making Sense of the ENCODE Project ( ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Data
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Encode: Encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome over 400 scientists — over 200 million dollars over 50 publications in 2012 and since a huge amount of data but the interpretation ?
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Encode:Encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human
genome
over 400 scientists — over 200 million dollars
over 50 publications in 2012 and since
a huge amount of data
but the interpretation ?
TE’s - SINEs
Alu’s are ∼285bp long. They were anciently derived from an7SL-RNA gene in some common ancestor of primates. Theycontain no protein coding regions but do have an internal polIIIpromoter (as does 7SL-RNA).
Copies bp Genome
Alu 1,090,000 290,100,000 10.60%