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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Walters BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6456365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hearing research 20190112
DNA methylation and histone modifications such as methylation, acetylation, and phosphorylation, are two types of epigenetic modifications that alter gene expression. These additions to DNA regulatory elements or to the tails of histones can be inherited or can also occur de novo. Since epigenetic modifications can have significant effects on various processes at both the cellular and organismal level, there has been a rapid increase in research on this topic throughout all fields of biology in ...[more]