Sentences with phrase «specific epigenetic information»
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Each cell carries this information tightly packed on a two - meter long DNA strand in the cell nucleus and specific epigenetic mechanisms control access to the «blueprint of life».
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«Just as normal cells with the same genome differentiate into many different cell types, a single tumor characterized by specific genetic mutations can contain many different types of cells — stem - like and more differentiated cells — with the difference being rooted in their epigenetic information.
Epigenetic changes do not alter the information encoded in the DNA sequence itself but determine whether and to what extent specific genes are used by cells.