Sentences with phrase «specific epigenetic patterns»
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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.
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Professor Zhou explained: «We built a database of epigenetic markers, specifically methylation patterns, which are common across many types of cancer and also specific to cancers originating from specific tissue, such as the lung or liver.
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.
They are specific to their eating patterns and may well be an epigenetic adaptation.