{"id":182471,"date":"2024-02-11T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-discover-one-million-new-components-of-the-human-genome"},"modified":"2024-02-11T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:22:41","slug":"researchers-discover-one-million-new-components-of-the-human-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-discover-one-million-new-components-of-the-human-genome","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover one million new components of the human genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-one-million-new-components-of-the-human-genome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have found nearly one million new exons\u2014stretches of DNA that are expressed in mature RNA\u2014in the human genome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10760453\/\">The findings<\/a> were published in the journal Genome Research.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 20,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/protein-coding+genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein-coding genes<\/a> in humans that contain approximately 180,000 known internal exons. These protein-coding regions account for only one percent of the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human genome<\/a>. The vast majority of what remains is a mystery\u2014aptly referred to as the \u201cdark genome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have found nearly one million new exons\u2014stretches of DNA that are expressed in mature RNA\u2014in the human genome. The findings were published in the journal Genome Research. There are around 20,000 protein-coding genes in humans that contain approximately 180,000 known internal exons. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182471","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}