Sentences with phrase «analyze epigenetic marks»
Researchers based at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) have constructed computer models to analyze epigenetic marks, which include proteins bound to DNA as well as chemical modifications to histone proteins.
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«We didn't set out to study the relationship between the epigenetic chromatin marks and gene expression during development, but rather to analyze the function of these marks in DNA processing.
Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.
The researchers then analyzed the DNA to examine the degree of an epigenetic mark called methylation, a chemical tag on genes related to whether they're «turned on» or «off.»