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ultraconserved element: a standalone construct

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Genomics

a long stretch of noncoding sequence held nearly identical across distant species, implying strong constraint.

In genomics, ultraconserved element refers to a long stretch of noncoding sequence held nearly identical across distant species, implying strong constraint. This meaning comes from Bejerano (2004) in Science.[1]

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References

Bejerano, G., Pheasant, M., Makunin, I., Stephen, S., Kent, W. J., Mattick, J. S., & Haussler, D. (2004). Ultraconserved Elements in the Human Genome. Science, 304(5675), 1321-1325. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1098119

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