Uncharacterized Genes: Evolutionary Rates And A Clue
Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 13:10
in Biology & Nature
Humans have an unclear number of genes - ab initio gene finding and comparative gene finding yield different totals (see the Human Genome Project for details) - but it is likely in the low 20,000s and those genes make nearly as many proteins. The functions of most genes have not been fully determined, but knowing what a particular gene does could obviously help researchers understand disease processes and identify targets for new drugs. read more