Scientists cut ‘Gordian knot’ in human genome

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A team of researchers co-led by Erez Lieberman Aiden of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has discovered how mysterious, inactive genes in females hold sway over the superloops that connect DNA sequences at opposite ends of the chromosome.

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http://news.rice.edu/2016/07/18/scientists-cut-gordian-knot-in-human-genome/

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