Environmental change leaves its footprint in the epigenome

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Jun 2, 2014, 6:18 am568 ptsHotTop
(Phys.org) —Monozygotic twins look more similar when they are young than later in life. One of the reasons for this is epigenetic change in the form of chemical modifications of the DNA or its packaging proteins. Environmental factors can influence these modifications over a lifetime. Scientists at the Max…

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