This book comprehensively covers epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation,
paramutation, imprinting, X-inactivation, repeated genes, gene silencing, nuclear …

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that occur without a
change in DNA sequence. Epigenetic phenomena have major economic and medical …

Background Epigenetics has rapidly evolved in the past decade to form an exciting new
branch of biology. In modern terms,'epigenetics' studies molecular pathways regulating how …

Genes constitute only a small portion of the total genome and precisely controlling their
expression represents a substantial problem for their regulation. Furthermore, non-coding …

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 …

Epigenetic gene silencing results from the inhibition of transcription or from
posttranscriptional RNA degradation. DNA methylation is one of the most central and …

Epigenetic modification of plant gene and transposon activity, which correlates with their
methylation, is often heritable over many generations. Such heritable properties allow …

The study of epigenetics in plants has a long and rich history, from initial descriptions of non-
Mendelian gene behaviors to seminal discoveries of chromatin-modifying proteins and …

). It may also contribute to immobilization of mammalian transposons, suppression of
transcriptional noise, and the control of tissue-specific gene expression, but decisive …

Epigenetics refers to the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular
phenotype without changes in DNA sequence. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is …