Biological roles for junk genes after all

From: Gordon Simons (gsimons@email.unc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 16:51:25 EST

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    An article in today's web-version of the NY Time (appearing in the Health
    Section) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/health/reuters-genome.html
    quotes Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the federal government's Human
    Genome Project, as saying that "a number of big surprises will come out
    of genetics research in the coming weeks." One of the big surprises:

    ``There is now clear evidence that (the junk genes) have been performing a
    number of functions for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.''



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