Introducing epigenetics : a graphic guide /: a graphic guide. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cath Ennis & Oliver Pugh.
• Authors: Ennis, Cath; Pugh, Oliver
• Contents: Genes, RNA and proteins -- Chromosomes, nucleosomes and chromatin -- DNA replication and mitosis -- Meiosis and inheritance -- Beyond the DNA sequence: gene regulation -- Nature and nurture -- Twin studies -- The history of epigenetics -- The discovery of chromatin modifications -- The modern understanding of epigenetic modifications -- DNA methylation -- Histone modifications -- Chromatin remodelling -- Nuclear location -- RNA -- Interactions between different epigenetic modifications -- Epigenetics explains what genetics alone cannot -- Epigenetics changes during embryonic development -- X chromosome inactivation -- How our environment affects our genes -- Not so identical twins -- Epigenetic inheritance -- Epigenetic inheritance in animal models -- Human epigenetic inheritance: the Dutch hunger winter -- Human epigenetic inheritance: Överkalix -- Mechanism of epigenetic inheritance -- Epigenetics in evolution -- Epigenetics in disease: ageing -- Epigenetics in disease: inherited mutations in epigenetic regulations -- Epigenetics in disease: imprinting errors -- The epigenetics of cancer -- Epigenetics in medicine -- Stem cell therapies -- Epigenetics and pseudoscience -- The future of epigenetics -- Epigenomics -- New epigenetic modifications -- The epitranscriptome -- Epigenetic editing -- Epigen-ethics -- Looking ahead -- Glossary.
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages ), chiefly illustrations
• Subjects: 572.865; Epigenetics -- Popular works; Epigenetics -- Comic books, strips, etc; Épigénétique -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Épigénétique -- Bandes dessinées; Epigenetics; Epigenetik; Graphic nonfiction; Comics (Graphic works); Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848319035; 1848319037
• Related ISBNs: 9781848318625; 1848318626
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 176).; Note: Description based on print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.