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Andrew Modzelewski PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine

Investigating the Role of Retrotransposon Reactivation in Development and Disease

Maybe not "Junk DNA" after all: more 50% of our genome is made up of ancient retroviruses and mobile DNA while protein coding genes only make up 2%, which begs the question "Do they do anything?" and if so, what?

Andrew Modzelewski

Biomedical Science