Only 10-25% of Human Genome is Functional, New Estimate Says0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2017
In a paper published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, University of Houston Professor Dan Graur says that the functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10% and 15%, with an upper limit of 25%. These figures are very different from one (about 80%) given in 2012 by the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, but more optimistic than the 2014 estimate (8.2%) by Rands et al.
