Cells may stray from 'central dogma' : Nature News

The central dogma: DNA makes RNA makes protein: Still true, but sometimes the RNA is not that predicted by the DNA , and has been edited: The protein is copied from the RNA and in these edited cases the protein sequence reflects the RNA and not the original DNA sequence. It is of course the proteins that provide the function, so what does this mean in terms of gene association and other studies ? Identical genes in different individuals need not necessarily make an identical protein. Look out for a flurry of RNA polymorphisms ?

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