Researchers at Cornell University recently discovered roughly 300 previously unidentified human genes and several hundred extensions of already known genes. The group, led by Adam Siepel, assistant professor of computational biology and biological statistics at Cornell, used three specially scripted algorithms to compare alignments among human, rat, chicken, and mouse genomes in varying configurations in order to identify conserved genes.
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