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Personalized Medicine and Type 2 Diabetes: Lesson from Epigenetics
1 Apr 2014
Abstract excerpt
Similarly to genetic polymorphisms, epigenetic modifications may alter transcriptional activity and contribute to different traits of the Type 2 diabetes phenotype. The establishment of these epigenetic marks may precede diabetes onset and predict the disease. Current evidence now indicates that epigenetic differences represent markers of diabetes risk. Studies on epigenome plasticity revealed that cytokines and...
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