Sentences with phrase «altering epigenetic marks»
The transcription factor nerve growth factor - inducible protein a mediates epigenetic programming: Altering epigenetic marks by immediate - early genes
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Abuse seems to have altered the epigenetic marks in their hippocampi.
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Stress is thought to cause «epigenetic» changes to genes, which do not alter the sequence of their DNA but instead leave chemical marks that dictate how active genes are.
These studies hint at how experiences in youth can rewrite the epigenetic marks in our brains, altering our behavior as adults.
«We note that there are two subgroups of breast tumors by epigenome: one which we have called Epi - Basal, characterized by loss of epigenetic marks causing breakage of chromosomes and the other that we have called Epi - Luminal B, that presents epigenetic inactivation of genes that should protect us from cancer and these altered cells can no longer do it.»
Methylation is one type of «epigenetic mark» that previous research has shown can be either inherited or altered by life experience.
Lausanne, Switzerland About Blog Epigenomics and Epigenetics queries the developmental origins of health and disease by cataloguing the sets of physical markings on chromatin that collaborate to stably alter gene expression.