Human Epigenetics: How Science Works /
The view "It's all in our genes and we cannot change it" developed in the past 150 years since Gregor Mendel's experiments with flowering pea plants. However, there is a special form of genetics, referred to as epigenetics, which does not involve any change of our genes but regul...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019
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| Edition: | First edition 2019 |
| Series: | Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chromatin and gene expression
- DNA methylation
- Histone modifications
- Chromatin modifying proteins and RNAs
- Embryogenesis and cellular differentiation
- Population epigenetics and aging
- Cancer epigenetics
- Neuroepigenetics
- Nutritional epigenetics
- Epigenetics of immune function
- Epigenome-environment interactions and their therapy