New level of genetic diversity discovered in human RNA sequences

Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

A detailed comparison of DNA and RNA in human cells has uncovered a surprising number of cases where the corresponding sequences are not, as has long been assumed, identical. The RNA-DNA differences generate proteins that do not precisely match the genes that encode them.

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