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Epigenetics

3/26/2018

 
Epigenetics affects how genes are read by cells, and subsequently how they produce proteins. What you eat, where you live, when you sleep, how you exercise  – all of these can eventually cause chemical modifications around the genes that will turn those genes on or off over time. In certain diseases such as Cancer or Alzheimer’s, various genes will be switched into the opposite state, away from the normal state.

Epigenetics Is modifiable. With 20,000+ genes, what will be the result of the different combinations of genes being turned on or off? ​
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