It's possible, Gingeras says, that many of these RNA-coding regions regulate how genes make proteins--a function that could make them very important.

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Up to one quarter of genetic mutations occur either in introns, noncoding segments of DNAsandwiched within the coding regions of a gene, or in sequences between genes.

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Simons' four key patents, granted by the U.S. between 1993 and 1998, cover the use of variations in a junk DNAsequence to assist in analyzing or identifying genes in the coding regions.

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