Epigenetic phenomena in animals and plants are mediated by DNA methylation and stable
chromatin modifications. There has been considerable interest in whether environmental …

ABSTRACT DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification critical to normal genome
regulation and development. The vitamin folate is a key source of the one carbon group …

DNA methylation is the most extensively studied mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation.
Increasing evidence indicates that DNA methylation is labile in response to nutritional and …

Human aging cannot be fully understood in terms of the constrained genetic setting.
Epigenetic drift is an alternative means of explaining age-associated alterations. To address …

Abstract Knowledge of epigenetic alterations in disease is rapidly increasing owing to the
development of genome-wide techniques for their identification. The ever-growing number …

Age-related changes in DNA methylation have been implicated in cellular senescence and
longevity, yet the causes and functional consequences of these variants remain unclear. To …

It is known that information that is not contained in the DNA sequence—epigenetic
information—can be inherited from the parent to the offspring. However, many questions …

Recent theories endogenize the attitude endowments of individuals, assuming that they are
shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. This paper tests empirically for the …

Biology presents many wonders, but one of the most remarkable is how a complex
multicellular organism grows from a single cell. Until recently, the processes involved …

DNA methylation is a major control program that modulates gene expression in a plethora of
organisms. Gene silencing through methylation occurs through the activity of DNA …