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Junk DNA holds clues to heart disease

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Deleting a non-coding region leads to narrowing of arteries in mice.

Researchers have made headway in working out why a section of junk DNA — the 98% or so of the genome that does not code for proteins — raises the risk of at least one form of heart disease.

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Fang, J. Junk DNA holds clues to heart disease. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.82

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