Human Epigenetics: How Science Works

• Main Authors: Carlberg, Carsten (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Molnár, Ferdinand (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Gene expression.; Molecular biology.; Nutrition .; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Gene Expression.; Molecular Medicine.; Nutrition.; Cancer Research.

The view "It's all in our genes and we cannot change it" developed in the past 150 years since Gregor Mendel's experiments with flowering pea plants. However, there is a special form of genetics, referred to as epigenetics, which does not involve any change of our genes but regul...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chromatin and gene expression
• DNA methylation
• Histone modifications
• Chromatin modifying proteins and RNAs
• Embryogenesis and cellular differentiation
• Population epigenetics and aging
• Cancer epigenetics
• Neuroepigenetics
• Nutritional epigenetics
• Epigenetics of immune function
• Epigenome-environment interactions and their therapy.