Sentences with phrase «different epigenetic patterns»
A new twin study sheds light on what causes reprogrammed stem cells to have different epigenetic patterns
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Obese and lean men very likely have different epigenetic patterns in tissues throughout their bodies, he says, including sperm.
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A recent flurry of conferences have forwarded the idea of creating an international epigenome project that could centralize the data, set goals for different groups, and standardize the technology for decoding epigenetic patterns.
The Human Genome Project, which sequenced the 3 billion pairs of nucleotide bases in human DNA, was a piece of cake in comparison: Epigenetic markers and patterns are different in every tissue type in the human body and also change over time.
For Helicobacter pylori, a pathogenic bacterium that colonizes over 40 percent of the world population and is associated with gastric cancer, the team discovered that epigenetic heterogeneity can quickly emerge as a single cell divides, and different subpopulations with distinct methylation patterns have distinct gene expressions patterns.
The specific pattern of epigenetic marks in a cell type specifies identity and this epigenetic control is vital to what makes our cells different, for example a skin cell from a liver cell, when they all contain the same genetic instructions.
However, different kinds of cells have different epigenetics, so their expression patterns are different.»
The program works by looking for specific molecular patterns in cancer DNA that is free flowing in the patients» blood and comparing the patterns against a database of tumour epigenetics, from different cancer types, collated by the authors.