«By establishing this Chinese famine cohort of families, we hope to conduct a much more comprehensive and in - depth assessment of the whole genome and
epigenome along with metabolic biomarkers of these participants moving forward.»
Not exact matches
Those instructions are found not in the letters of the DNA itself but on it, in an array of chemical markers and switches, known collectively as the
epigenome, that lie
along the length of the double helix.
Dr. Oesterreich and her colleagues propose that future studies look at offering a combined therapy that,
along with aromatase inhibitors, also introduces drugs that modify the
epigenome to prevent or delay the cancer from repressing cancer - killing genes.
But nobody expected that it would be so extensive,» says postdoctoral researcher and co-first author Mattia Pelizzola, who
along with Lister undertook the extensive task of extracting and analyzing the
epigenome data from these vast sequence datasets.
Our genome,
along with the
epigenome, ultimately decides our body's weakest link and expression of illness throughout our lives.