Epigenetics involves genetic control by factors other than an ... methylation can reactivate genes that have been silenced. Two examples of these types of drugs are 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2 ...

It discusses how factors such as air pollution, light pollution, smoking, alcohol, and sugar can induce epigenetic changes that affect gene expression and overall health. For example, short-term ...

Epigenetics is the study of factors that affect your genes without changing the ... so that we become more predisposed to developing cancer.” The gene p53, for example, plays a role in “at least 50 ...

Connecting inheritance of DNA and histone marks The examples above ... fork to ensure the epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation, DNA- and chromatin-binding factors, histone modifications ...

Ding and her colleagues found that epigenetic modifications also affect transcription factors, causing far-reaching effects on the larger gene networks that they control. For example, hypermethylation ...

Andrew Pospisilik, Ph.D., chair of VAI's Department of Epigenetics and co-corresponding ... thanks to an accumulation of DNA damage and other factors. Still, not every abnormal cell goes on ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

A person's lifetime risk for cancer may begin before they are even born, reports a paradigm-shifting study by Van Andel Institute scientists.

Researchers uncover a link between genetic mutations and epigenetic changes, two major contributors to aging. Their findings ...

For example, prenatal and childhood exposure ... among millennials is driven by a combination of environmental and epigenetic ...