Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backs, Johannes (Editor), McKinsey, Timothy A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Cardiac and Vascular Biology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Human physiology.; Molecular biology.; Cardiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Human Genetics.; Molecular Medicine.

This book describes important advances in our understanding of how environmental conditions affect cardiac gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms. Further, it discusses the roles of chromatin modifications (in particular DNA methylation and histone modifications) and of chromatin regulators i...