Junk DNA : : A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome / / Nessa Carey.
For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose....
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Nomenclature
- An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter
- 1. Why Dark Matter Matters
- 2. When Dark Matter Turns Very Dark Indeed
- 3. Where Did All the Genes Go?
- 4. Outstaying an Invitation
- 5. Everything Shrinks When We Get Old
- 6. Two Is the Perfect Number
- 7. Painting with Junk
- 8. Playing the Long Game
- 9. Adding Colour to the Dark Matter
- 10. Why Parents Love Junk
- 11. Junk with a Mission
- 12. Switching It On, Turning It Up
- 13. No Man’s Land
- 14. Project ENCODE – Big Science Comes to Junk DNA
- 15. Headless Queens, Strange Cats and Portly Mice
- 16. Lost in Untranslation
- 17. Why LEGO is Better Than Airfix
- 18. Mini Can Be Mighty
- 19. The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes)
- 20. Some Light in the Darkness
- Notes
- Appendix: Human Diseases Cited in the Main Text, in Which Junk DNA Has Been Implicated
- Index