Sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, with a
complex risk structure thought to be influenced by interactions between genetic variants and …

Research efforts during the past decades have provided intriguing evidence suggesting that
stressful experiences during pregnancy exert long-term consequences on the future mental …

DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic modification that contributes to the spatiotemporal
regulation of gene expression. The manner in which DNA methylation contributes to …

Transcription, translation and subsequent protein modification represent the transfer of
genetic information from the archival copy of DNA to the short-lived messenger RNA, usually …

Investigations of long-term changes in brain structure and function that accompany chronic
exposure to drugs of abuse suggest that alterations in gene regulation contribute …

Gene therapy is becoming a promising therapeutic modality for the treatment of genetic and
acquired disorders. Nonviral approaches as alternative gene transfer vehicles to the popular …

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted by plants as a consequence of their
interaction with biotic and abiotic factors, and have a very important role in plant evolution …

Advances in genome sequencing have progressed at a rapid pace, with increased
throughput accompanied by plunging costs. But these advances go far beyond faster and …

Forensic epigenetics, ie, investigating epigenetics variation to resolve forensically relevant
questions unanswerable with standard forensic DNA profiling has been gaining substantial …

DNA methylation and chromatin modification operate along a common pathway to repress
transcription; accordingly, several experiments demonstrate that the effects of DNA …