Human Epigenetics: How Science Works

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Carlberg, Carsten (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Molnár, Ferdinand (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.