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Scientists Vie To Break Junk DNA's Secret Code
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | Roger Highfield

Posted on 10/06/2003 4:34:06 PM PDT by blam

Scientists vie to break junk DNA's secret code

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 06/10/2003)

Huge tracts of human DNA, previously written off as meaningless junk, have been found to contain a hitherto unrecognised "genetic grammar", making the language of our genes much more complex than previously thought.

The discovery is of potentially huge significance, since it could lead to an entirely new explanation for certain diseases and symptoms. A race is now on among teams of scientists worldwide to investigate this cryptic code.

While the genetic recipe of a human being is spelt out with three billion letters of DNA code, only about two per cent of these correspond to the genes - the DNA that describes the proteins that build and operate bodies.

In the latest issue of the journal Science, Prof Stylianos Antonarakis of the University of Geneva Medical School, Dr Ewen Kirkness of the Institute of Genomic Research, Maryland, and colleagues have reported compelling evidence that up to three per cent of our genetic material has a crucial role that is not understood.

They made the unexpected discovery that some DNA regions of humans, dogs and species as distant as elephant and wallaby are nearly identical. These regions of what were once called junk have been dubbed "conserved non-genic sequences", or CNGs, a reference to how they are not conventional genes.

Prof Antonarakis said: "I suspect that mutations in CNGs may contribute to numerous genetic disorders." Defects in CNGs could result in illness while the symptoms of Down's syndrome, caused by an extra copy of a chromosome, might be linked to the presence of additional CNGs.

"Many laboratories are now working on identifying pathogenic mutations," he said.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: crevolist; geneticgrammar; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; junkdna
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To: exmarine; js1138
You have just confirmed that I am correct in viewing secular humanists as my enemy. Your worldview and my worldview are like oil and water - they don't mix. They are the antithesis to each other. One says there is no God, therefore, evolution is true in all areas of law and society and culture, that all reality can be reduced to mere material forces, and that religion is just superstitious nonsense! (THAT WOULD BE YOU - THE SECULAR HUMANIST TYRANT). The other worldview, judeo-Christian, says that God exists, that He is the creator of all things, and that humans have God-given rights, and are intrinsically valuable. In fact, you only have freedom because you live in a country founded on the Christian worldview - HOW IRONIC!

Only one can dominate society, and it will be yours over my dead body, and many people agree with me. We are in a war - your debate with me is a tiny microcosm of that war - but the war is real. God will win in the end and you will lose.

Articulated Perfectly. I am glad we are on the side of common sense, not an intellectual hall of mirrors.

Denial is unbecoming!

801 posted on 10/15/2003 11:15:50 AM PDT by bondserv
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To: exmarine; js1138
I would also add for those theistic evolutionists, if there was death before Adam, Jesus died for no reason.

Because Adam chose, via his free-will, to die, we have a need of the redeemer (Jesus Christ) to die for us to conquer death. Theistic evolutionists are forced to disregard most of the Apostle Paul's epistles.

That sacrificing stuff really messes with those evolutionists. Why the blood of Christ, if death was a natural event from the beginning?

802 posted on 10/15/2003 11:37:53 AM PDT by bondserv
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To: exmarine
The ACLU is the enemy of every freedom loving American and they should be stopped or jailed for trying to subvert the U.S. Constitution.

Conserervative Stereotype Alert

803 posted on 10/15/2003 12:02:16 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: exmarine; js1138
Although, from my personally experience, I wouldn't call js1138 a "Tyrant".
804 posted on 10/15/2003 12:21:34 PM PDT by bondserv
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Conserervative Stereotype Alert

Facts speak for themselves. The FACT is that the ACLU extorts acquiescence from those it seeks to persecute. Where I come from, blackmail is crime and a moral travesty. I must assume from your reply that you also align yourself with these mendacious blackguards.

805 posted on 10/15/2003 12:33:53 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: bondserv
Anyone who agrees or sympathizes with the ACLU has a problem with FREEDOM.
806 posted on 10/15/2003 12:34:54 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
You may assume anything you wish.

Should I take your post as showing a desire to put me in jail?
807 posted on 10/15/2003 12:41:28 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
If you are an active member of the ACLU, who participates in extortion and suppression of religious freedom in contravention of the law of the land, then, YES, you should be in jail.
808 posted on 10/15/2003 12:43:01 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: Doctor Stochastic
The ACLU often support traitorous activities (thinking of the lady and her ACLU staff who were passing on marching orders for Al Qaeda for the blind guy from the 1993 Trade Center bombing).

Imagine all of the traitorous activity we are not aware of.

The ACLU needs serious legal monitoring from a national security perspective.

809 posted on 10/15/2003 12:49:50 PM PDT by bondserv
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To: bondserv
I have made no statements about the ACLU.

810 posted on 10/15/2003 12:51:58 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
True.
811 posted on 10/15/2003 12:58:36 PM PDT by bondserv
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Conserervative Stereotype Alert

Within this statement seems to be the inadvertant admission that you are not a conservative and that you don't like positions that conservatives hold.

What are you doing lurking on a site called "FREE" Republic? Shouldn't you be hanging out in "COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP"? :)

812 posted on 10/15/2003 1:02:55 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
Well said, Exmarine.

FRegards,

MM

813 posted on 10/15/2003 7:42:13 PM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
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To: Doctor Stochastic; js1138
Lurking and laughing placemarker
814 posted on 10/15/2003 8:04:30 PM PDT by Ogmios (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Ogmios
Waiting for the first politician to run on ex's platform placemarker.
815 posted on 10/15/2003 8:16:33 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Can you say 95% to 5%, LOSER!!!

I could call that race before it started, who would need the strawpolls?
816 posted on 10/15/2003 9:33:59 PM PDT by Ogmios (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Ogmios
I suppose true conservatives, like Libertarians, would rather be Right than be elected.

Now I know that Rush says conservatives get elected when they are true to conservative principles, but I can't recall the last time anyone got elected on a platform of promoting theocracy and imprisoning political enemies.

I have to believe that some posters here are DU plants -- caricatures of conservatives designed to embarrass the site.
817 posted on 10/15/2003 9:42:11 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
I have to believe that some posters here are DU plants -- caricatures of conservatives designed to embarrass the site.

I could see that, because some of the nuts on here, are just too crazy to be real.

Then again, I haven't listened to "coast to coast" in a while, so I may be a little cold on the subject.
818 posted on 10/15/2003 9:46:30 PM PDT by Ogmios (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Ogmios
[358] - Mark for read
819 posted on 10/20/2003 5:48:37 PM PDT by Diddley (Libs say, "I support the troops, but not the war" = "I support the police but not fighting crime.")
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Note: this topic is from 10/06/2003. Thanks blam.
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820 posted on 06/28/2015 1:31:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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