Efforts to systematically characterize silencers in animal genomes have been limited. Two studies in this issue of Nature Genetics bring silencers into the spotlight, identifying these elements genome wide in human and mouse cells, and providing insights into their function.

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消音器成为人们关注的焦点。

在动物基因组中系统表征沉默子的努力受到限制。在本期《自然遗传学》上的两项研究使沉默子成为人们关注的焦点，他们确定了人类和小鼠细胞中全基因组中的这些元素，并对它们的功能提供了见识。