Sentences with phrase «epigenetic differences between»

In addition, genetic and epigenetic differences between males and females have been reported at the preimplantation stage [19, 20, 36], indicating that at this early stage of development male and female blastocysts can respond differently to IVC, affecting later development, and can differentially restore epigenetic marks between generations.

With the recent advances in technologies, we are now able to map the epigenetic differences between normal and cancer cells at a genomic scale with high efficiency.

FLATOW: There's another study out this week showing epigenetic differences between induced stem cells and embryonic stem cells, that induced stem cells had a memory, basically.

However, there were still key epigenetic differences between twins in terms of how the iPSCs compared to ESCs.

The researchers identified several hundred differences in methylation associated with either Mexican or Puerto Rican ethnicity, but discovered that only three - quarters of the epigenetic difference between the two ethnic subgroups could be accounted for by differences in the children's genetic ancestry.

Not exact matches

«There's a complex interplay between hormones, experience and epigenetic changes in response to life events,» says neuroscientist Cheryl Sisk, who studies sex differences in the brain at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

The research suggests that this phenomenon is not encoded directly in the parasite's DNA, but rather in other «epigenetic» differences between the parasites.

DNA methylation is one form of epigenetic modification being studied by scientists trying to understand how the same genetic code can produce so many different cells and tissues as well as differences between individuals as closely related as twins.

«Our findings highlight the remarkable impact that subtle structural differences between histone H3 variants has in the global landscape of epigenetics,» says Couture.

The differences between male and female iPS cells are most pronounced for one of the key processes in the field of epigenetics: DNA methylation, a modification that changes the activity of a DNA segment without changing its sequence.

His lab continues to study the genetic and / or epigenetic basis for the differences between leader and follower cells.

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities.

This led the team to hypothesize that a large fraction of their newly disovered epigenetic markers of ethnicity likely reflect biological signatures of environmental, social, or cultural differences between ethnic subgroups.

This epigenetic regulatory layer controls where, when and how genes are activated, and is believed to be behind many of the differences between human groups.

This week's features include: a clinic that doesn't know the difference between epigenetics and genetics; lessons about aging from Dolly the sheep; and does epigenetics interfere with gene editing?

If a store, clinic or health center does not know or understand the difference between personal genetics (i.e. the sequence of your genes) and epigenetics, you may want to think twice before trusting them with your health or money.

Our results show that trangenerational epigenetic effects play a role in adaptive evolution, and suggest that the relationship between changes in methylation patterns and differences in evolutionary outcomes, at least for quantitative traits such as cell division rates, is complex.

Differences between mRNA expression of several epigenetic regulatory genes analyzed on blastocysts produced in vivo and by in vitro culture with FCS or BSA supplementation.

To study such effects, the Comparative Genomics group employs computational and evolutionary approaches to analyze whole genome datasets for predicting genomic, epigenetic and expression differences between individuals.