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What: In continued work of the , which is aimed at uncovering the functional landscape of the human genome, a team of researchers from the ӳý’s Epigenomics Program and the Massachusetts General Hospital recently developed a method to test the functions of genomic elements.

The method targets suspected enhancers – “switches” that control the activity of nearby genes – by homing in on their signature epigenomic (i.e., “on top of the genome”) marks.