Australian Jack Irishâex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barflyâgets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide) this month.
But ever since then, the estimated number has been steadily shrinking. A new study suggests that the human genome could contain as few as 19,000 protein-coding genes, fewer than nematode worms. In 2001, the initial sequence of the human genome cut the figure dramatically.
A gene on chromsome 7q34 that encodes a protein of the raf/mil family of serine/threonine protein kinases, which plays a role in regulating the MAP kinase/ERKs-signalling pathway, affecting cell division, differentiation and secretion.