Sentences with phrase «epigenetic factors also»

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In a report on the research published March 27 in Nature Genetics, the team says the findings also suggest that such epigenetic variability is a major factor in the ability of cancer cells to proliferate, adapt and metastasize.

This discrepancy suggests that other hereditary factors also play a role, such as epigenetic changes in the genetic material, including DNA methylation.

Many properties are determined by genetic factors, but we are starting to recognize that also epigenetic factors are of great importance.

Dexter also wants to look at links between epigenetic factors and disease.

The methylation of DNA is one of the epigenetic mechanisms regulating the functioning of the genome, influenced by not only by variations in DNA sequence, but also environmental factors such as fluctuations in the circadian rhythm.

A central biological concept that can explain how genes interact with environmental factors such as trauma on the molecular level is environmental epigenetics, the idea that we are not simply a product of our genes but also our experience.

Researchers also used single - cell sequencing to study the interplay of genetic and epigenetic factors in cancer.