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Epigenetics and human disease

Genetic researchers Paul Shiels, Laura Monaghan and Ognian Neytchev outline some of the fundamental components of epigenetics and discuss its effect on health

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the DNA sequence itself. But how does this happen and what are its consequences?

AQA: 3.4.2 for definition of genome; 3.8.2.2 Regulation of transcription and translation

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