Similarly, the same sequences in the fugu genome have 68% identity to human UCEs, despite the human genome only reliably aligning to 1.8% of the fugu genome. Despite often being noncoding DNA, some ultraconserved elements have been found to be transcriptionally active, producing non-coding RNA molecules.

Evolution

Researchers originally assumed that perfect conservation of these long stretches of DNA implied evolutionary

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