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DNA methylation and epigenetic mechanisms.
Cell biophysics - 1 Jan 2000
Holliday R
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Genes are essential for the transmission of genetic information from generation to generation, and this mechanism of inheritance is fully understood. Genes are also essential for unfolding the genetic program for development, but the rules governing this process are obscure. Epigenetics comprises the study of the switching on and off of genes during development, the segregation of gene activities following...
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