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The peptide, humanin, was ultimately traced to a tiny snippet of mitochondrial DNApart of the ninety-eight per cent of the human genome that had long been dismissed as junk DNA. Cohens work helped reveal that, in the three-billion-letter book that is our genome, even obscure one-liners can be an important part of the story
It is involved in the neuro-circuitry of memory, emotions, and cognition and is implicated in myriad psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, drug addiction, and neuropsychiatric disorders
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