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How so-called ‘junk DNA’ affects cancer risk

John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, is trying to understand how our genes influence cancer risk. In a recent research paper, he and his colleagues explored an often-overlooked segment of the human genome that may have a profound impact on cancer formation and prevention.