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| Other authors / contributors: | Gasser, Susan M.
Li, En.
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| ISBN: | 9783764389888
3764389885
9783764389895 (electronic bk.)
3764389893 (electronic bk.)
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | Epigenetics has emerged recently as an important area of molecular biological studies. Epigenetic modifications lead to potentially heritable but reversible alterations in the expression of genes that determine cell fate. Epigenetic misregulation is thus often linked to degenerative diseases, cancer and neuronal disorders. Recent biomedical interest in this regulatory system stems from the fact that epigenetic, in contrast to genetic, alterations are in principle amenable to pharmacological intervention. A few epigenetically active drugs, for example histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) and.
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| Other form: | Print version: Epigenetics and disease. Basel : Birkhäuser ; London : Springer [distributor], 2011 9783764389888
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