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Long-Distance Gene Control Appeared Over 650 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests


Distal regulation -- the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters -- appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago -- around 150 million years earlier than previously thought.

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