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During development, cells proliferate, differentiate and ultimately form tissues and organs. The instructions that coordinate these processes and therefore build an organism are encoded in the genome. The genome basically comprises genes, coding sequences that instruct the synthesis of RNA or proteins, and non-coding sequences. Within these non-coding sequences, which for a long time were considered junk