Sentences with phrase «called noncoding regions»

Once dismissed as «junk DNA,» researchers have found that some of these so - called noncoding regions are shared among mammals, suggesting they play an important function.

«People used to call the noncoding regions junk DNA, but I see it as a jungle that has not been explored,» said Christopher Gregg, Ph.D., assistant professor in Neurobiology and Anatomy at U of U Health.

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Assessing the influence of individual DNA base changes is particularly difficult in noncoding regions, so they instead identified bigger alterations, so - called structural variants, in which large sequences of DNA are inverted, duplicated, or deleted.

Now, a new study probing so - called noncoding DNA has found that alterations in regions that regulate gene activity may also contribute to autism.

Like many genes, Dscam consists of protein - coding regions called exons interspersed with noncoding regions.