Periodic Reporting for period 3 - Silencer (The dark side of the genome: systematically studying the biology of repressive elements—silencers—in the human genome)

There are 3 billion base pairs in our human genome. Surprisingly, only 2% of such vast information codes for approximately 20,000 genes, which encode for proteins—the basic building blocks of cells1. The remaining 98% of the human genome, sometimes referred to as the dark...