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The Human DNA and its RNAs

DNA consists of protein-coding regions and non-coding regions. Protein-coding regions cover 1% of the genetic material and their direct outcome is messenger RNA (green). By contrast, non-coding regions of DNA are more complex and can be divided in:

• binding motifs for regulatory proteins (blue);
• regions that give birth to non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) (purple);
• transposable elements (not illustrated);
• highly repetitive DNA - essential in gene regulation and chromosome maintenance (not illustrated);
• pseudogenes (not illustrated).

In short, RNA-SEQ: