The human genome: a view from above.
The genome of vertebrates (and of eukaryotes in general) is not simply formed by genes that are randomly scattered over vast expanses of "junk DNA", but is organized in a system which obeys precise rules, that amount to a genomic code. Moreover, genes are concentrated in the chromosomal regions which are the richest in G (guanine) and C (cytosine) and seem to correspond to the telomeric regions of certain chromosome arms (T-bands). The study of the genome organization in different vertebrate classes allowed us to approach in a novel way a number of fundamental problems of genome evolution.
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Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France.
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