Sentences with phrase «fraction of the human genome»

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Yet a third player in the emerging algae fuel market is Synthetic Genomics, the brainchild of genomics guru Craig Venter, who beat the U.S. government in sequencing the human genome and at a fraction of the cost.

Most of those studies have focused on the portion of the human genome that encodes protein — a fraction that accounts for just 2 percent of human DNA overall.

«We were surprised by the results, because we expected a substantial fraction of the genome of the red wolf and eastern wolf, maybe 20 % to 30 %, would be derived from a long - distinct species, much as about 1 % to 4 % of [human] Eurasian genomes derive from Neanderthals,» said Wayne.

Faster ways to analyse DNA will speed up the human genome project, and will be essential if forensics labs are to handle more than a fraction of the cases that come their way.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

However, approximately 168 Mb remained ambiguous (Table 2) which was more than double the 5.8 % of the total non-aligning human genome, the fraction of known ancestral bases not supported by ancestral elements (Table 1).

Taken together, these studies both highlight a fact that I find myself repeating many times: a significant fraction of functional variation in the human genome lies outside the exons of known protein - coding genes.

We have a variety of data, both from actual assemblies and simulation studies, which show that about 96 % of the reference human genome is addressable using this library and sequencing strategy, including a significant fraction of the high - copy repeat sequences in the genome.

It's no secret that while genome - wide association studies (GWAS) have implicated thousands of genetic loci in human phenotypes, the variants uncovered collectively explain only a fraction of the observed variance between individuals.