Soapy Sam
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| Quote (sparc @ Sep. 20 2012,05:56) | | Quote (Soapy Sam @ Sep. 20 2012,02:53) |
[eta: Just read more carefully, and he derives his licence from the authors of the ENCODE papers. But they are writing for a literate audience, who hopefully know the difference between evolutionary and genome-organisational concepts.] |
I must second Larry Moran who doubts that the leading heads of ENCODE do exactly that. |
Yes, I have re-re-read and - though ENV have still over-reached the inferences drawn - the Nature notion is just plain wrong, from both a genetic and an evolutionary standpoint:
| Quote | | we would propose that the TRANSCRIPT be considered as THE BASIC ATOMIC UNIT OF INHERITANCE. |
(Blocks from ENV quote)
transcripts are part of primary phenotype, not genotype (as is the binding status of non-transcribed regulatory sequences, and methylation, sequence accessibility etc). ENCODE has not changed that.
Edited by Soapy Sam on Sep. 20 2012,07:38
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SoapySam is a pathetic asswiper. Joe G
BTW, when you make little jabs like “I thought basic logic was one thing UDers could handle,” you come off looking especially silly when you turn out to be wrong. - Barry Arrington
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