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Experts discover the oldest DNA regulatory region known to date

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 19.09.2011

Experts discover the oldest DNA regulatory region known to date

A team of scientists has discovered the oldest known DNA regulatory region, as reported in an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS). The team identified a small DNA fragment, with a deeply conserved noncoding sequence region (CNR), in the vicinity of soxB2 regulatory genes, which plays a role in gene regulation. The article was written by the experts Jordi Garcia-Fernández, Ignacio Maeso, Manuel Irimia and Salvatore D'Aniello, from the Department of Genetics and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), and additional authors from research teams led by José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology, CSIC) and Eric H. Davidson (California Institute of Technology, United States).


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