epimutation
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From epi- + mutation; compare epigenetic.
[edit] Noun
epimutation (plural epimutations)
- (genetics) A heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
- 2005, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life,[1] MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-10107-6, page 248,
- The first sign of cellular abnormality in some tumors is an epimutation—a change in heritable chromatin marks, such as an increase or decrease in the density of DNA methylation.
- 2005, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life,[1] MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-10107-6, page 248,
[edit] See also
- epigenetics
Epigenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Epigenetics
