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Session 2: Personalised nutrition. Epigenomics: a basis for understanding individual differences?
The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society - 1 Nov 2008
Mathers John C
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Epigenetics encompasses changes to marks on the genome that are copied from one cell generation to the next, which may alter gene expression but which do not involve changes in the primary DNA sequence. These marks include DNA methylation (methylation of cytosines within CpG dinucleotides) and post-translational modifications (acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation and ubiquitination) of the histone tails...
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