Jennifer Gerton, Ph.D., discusses breakthrough discovery surrounding how Chromosomes evolve (VIDEO)

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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“What makes this so exciting is that the sequences responsible for these fusions come from repetitive DNA that was long considered useless,” said Jennifer Gerton, Ph.D. “It turns out this so-called ‘junk DNA’ may hold the key to understanding chromosome evolution — and even what makes us uniquely human.” 

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