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Long-Distance Gene Control Appeared Over 650 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests

Distal regulation — the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters — appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago — around 150 million years earlier than previously thought.

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