{"id":176738,"date":"2023-11-25T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-human-gene-cluster-sequence-discovered"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:29:51","slug":"new-human-gene-cluster-sequence-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-human-gene-cluster-sequence-discovered","title":{"rendered":"New human gene cluster sequence discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wle6SxRBLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the laboratory of Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., the Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, detailed in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adj1261\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, is a breakthrough for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human genome<\/a> biology and has wide-ranging implications for future research in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/transcriptional+regulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transcriptional regulation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+evolution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human evolution<\/a>, and the study of repetitive DNA sequences, according to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an unbelievable discovery of the first elongation factor that is repeated within the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human<\/a> genome and is very primate-specific,\u201d said Shilatifard, who is also director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics and a professor of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators from the laboratory of Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., the Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, is a breakthrough for human genome biology and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}