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==Epigenetic Mechanisms== | ==Epigenetic Mechanisms== | ||
Epigenetics are | Epigenetics are inheritance mechanisms that lie outside the DNA sequence of our genes. | ||
* DNA methylation - usually associated with 5-methylcytosine (m5C), leads to transcriptional silencing in vertebrates. | |||
* Modification of nucleosomal histones. | |||
===Reference=== | ===Reference=== | ||
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Epigenetic Mechanisms
Epigenetics are inheritance mechanisms that lie outside the DNA sequence of our genes.
- DNA methylation - usually associated with 5-methylcytosine (m5C), leads to transcriptional silencing in vertebrates.
- Modification of nucleosomal histones.
Reference
<pubmed>16688142</pubmed>
Image: Nature 441, 143-145 (11 May 2006), with permission.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7090/full/441143a.html
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