Sentences with phrase «called epigenetic factors»

Our group is interested in understanding how genetic factors interact with other non-genetic and so - called epigenetic factors to determine such phenotypic variation.

However, researchers from the University of Zurich now reveal that so - called epigenetic factors play a role in the formation of metastases in malignant skin cancer.

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The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.

Blewitt said the gene Smchd1 — or «Smooch» as she calls it — encodes an epigenetic factor that switched genes off to suppress their function.

The reason for the differences, Tilghman said, is due to a factor outside the creatures» genetics that programs their development called «epigenetics.»

This new area of science is called epigenetics, the study of how different environmental and lifestyle factors can alter how our genes behave, without actually changing our genetic makeup [source: Science].

In a new study published in the journal Science, a team of researchers has described how DNA - binding proteins (called transcription factors) react to and interpret these «epigenetic» changes.

The news comes at a time of emerging importance for the biological process called «epigenetics,» in which a non-genetic factor impacts a cell's genetic makeup early during development — but sometimes with longer - term consequences.

Through this packaging mechanism, researchers think that histone proteins are the key to regulating access to the genetic information by making different parts of the DNA accessible to factors that express the gene, so - called epigenetic regulation.

Epigenetic factors act on the structures in which genes reside, called chromatin.