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Re:The human genome is, at long last, complete by robwwilliams on Saturday April 02, 2022 @10:26PM (#30893773)
Yes, and I do too and you are wrong—-it is not misleading at all—despite what ENCODE has claimed.

I suspect you have not had a recent course in population genetics.

Read Michael Lynch’s “The Origins of Genome Architecture” before you make dubious pronouncements. The human genome is a jungle of code and under rather weak selection due to small effective population size. There is a tremendous amount of cruft in all human genomes due to mobile element insertions and spread.

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Re:The human genome is, at long last, complete by forgotpwd16 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:46AM (#30895937)
Cannot follow your comment. Junk as noun refers to rubbish/garbage and therefore means something to be worthless. Parent comment says that it isn't worthless. My questions are:

Are you saying this is wrong and so-called junk DNA is indeed worthless?

Why you say to disregard ENCODE claims and are the functions mentioned in parent even related to them?

Can you make a synopsis of what the book you're recommending talks about?

Also note the book predates ENCODE project results and being 15 year old it doesn't consider any newer developments either.

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