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by iso1337 1901 days ago
It's the 3' (3-prime) UTR (un-translated region). It can affect the translation of the mRNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_prime_untranslated_regio....

The next thing is the poly-A tail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyadenylation

blasting the 3' UTR, we see it ~50% of it was copied from the human mitochondria

tldr, extra regulatory signals (often not well understood)

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Doesn't really make sense for it to copy from the mitochondrion; I presume this thing gets expressed in the cytosol.