Saturday, February 1, 2014

Researchers Find Ways To Identify DNA Regions Within Non-Coding DNA

A break through has been achieved in the health care industry as researchers are now able to recognize DNA regions residing in the non-coding DNA. It was found that some of the genetic variations within such non-coding DNA could lead to renal diseases like cancer. In addition; there could be other disease causing variants within. Comprehension about non-coding DNA that constitutes around 98% of genome is human anatomy is relatively poor. “Our technique allows scientists to focus in on the most functionally important parts of the non-coding regions of the genome”, says Professor Mark Gerstein of the University of Yale and one of the pioneers of the research. To derive the desired result the research team examined entire set of the genetic variants covering over 1000 Genomes Projects. They also banked on non-coding region information that was provided by ENCODE project. Ultimately they end up finding out “ultrasensitive” regions or some of the non-coding DNAs that cloned low variation levels displayed by protein-coding genes.

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