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Article: Study pinpoints regulator of imprinted gene expression.
- Article from:
- Genomics & Genetics Weekly
- Article date:
- April 4, 2003
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2003 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers an important contribution to a new wave of thinking in genetics: the idea that not all human disease states are due to alterations in DNA sequence.
A growing body of research on these "epigenetic" changes are leading geneticists to rethink the conventional view that all human disease is fundamentally tied to DNA sequence variation (changes in the actual sequence of the DNA nucleic acid code of A's, C's, G's and T's within any given gene).
The DNA within human cells contains the information for roughly 35,000 different proteins that carry out ...