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Epigenetics and Reproductive Medicine
24 Sept 2018
Abstract excerpt
In 1942, Conrad H Waddington introduced the term ‘epigenetics’, to describe a biological process that takes place between the genotype and phenotype.1 Epigenetics was subsequently defined as ‘the study of mitotically and meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequences’.2 It is a gene-marking and gene-regulatory system that is essential for normal mammalian...
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