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[epigenetic, epigenetically, epigenetic activation, epigenetic alterations, epigenetic gene activation, epigenetic gene inactivation, epigenetic gene silencing, epigenetic inactivation, epigenetic modification, epigenetic modifications, epigenetic silencing, epigenetically activated, epigenetically controlled, epigenetically inactivated, epigenetically silenced]
The collective term epigenetic refers to any kind of external modification to bases in DNA that do not involve mutational changes in the DNA sequence and cause changes in gene expression, either silencing genes but also activating genes (for overview see: Berger, 2009). Epigenetic changes can be transient but can also be heritable in the sense that they can be propagated from precursor cells to daughter cells each time a cell goes through the
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