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Interactions between genes and the environment. Epigenetics in allergy.
Allergologia et immunopathologia - 1 Jan 2000
Isidoro-García M, Dávila-González I, Pascual de Pedro M, Sanz-Lozano C, Lorente-Toledano F
Abstract excerpt
Epigenetics is defined as those inheritable changes occurring in gene expression, without actual modification in the genic DNA sequence. Epigenetic factors are chemically stable, potentially reversible, and can be modulated or induced by environmental factors. In the case of allergic disease, epigenetics could explain not only the discordances observed between monozygous twins but also phenomena such as...
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