PARTIAL ANSWER. “Even the ENCODE project, looked at a relatively small number of cell types. There are many transient progenitor cell populations whose epigentic marks are not yet described. So I really would not waste much thought about whether it is 8% or 80% functional. I would say there is likely to be remnants of DNA from transposons, gene duplications, pseudogenes etc. But how much of this is truly non-functional remains unknown.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022