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Role of epigenetics in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Epigenomics - 1 Oct 2010
Kwok John B J
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are two common neurodegenerative diseases that result in the progressive damage or death of neurons. Environmental agents have the potential to damage the developing and mature nervous system, resulting in neurodegenerative diseases. Heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve coding sequence modifications are referred to as 'epigenetic'. These...
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