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Genome regions once mislabeled ‘junk’ linked to heart failure

By Julia Evangelou Strait Large sections of the genome that were once referred to as “junk” DNA have been linked to human heart failure, according to research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. So-called junk DNA was long thought to have no important role in heredity or disease because it doesn’t code for proteins. But emerging research ...

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