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The research for the discovery of regulatory motifs along the human genome is something that has been going on for some time now. Here is a reference of an excellent nature paper on the subject that was published in 2005.
Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3' UTRs by comparison of several mammals, Nature 434, 338-345 (17 March 2005)
Konstantinos Vougas
Molecular Biologist
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