Epigenetics and Disease Pharmaceutical Opportunities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gasser, Susan M. (Editor), Li, En (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Progress in Drug Research ; 67
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical genetics.; Biomedicine.; Gene Function.

Epigenetics has emerged recently as an important area of molecular biological studies. Epigenetic modifications lead to potentially heritable but reversible alterations in the expression of genes that determine cell fate. Epigenetic misregulation is thus often linked to degenerative diseases, cancer...