What is epigenetics?
“Epi” translated from the Greek language means “on top of” or “over”. Meaning the word epigenetics shows that certain genes will be displayed over/before others. (2) Epigenetics is the study of the phenomenon that certain genes could be expressed within an individual whilst others are suppressed. This is the idea of being able to change your phenotype without affecting/changing your genotype in any way. (1) There can be a great many things that will influence epigenetics (to many to count) some having a positive outcome, other ending up more negative. There are also different types of epigenetics we are studying namely, “DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation, histone modification, chromatin remodeling and regulation by …show more content…
Epigenetics is in fact not according to popular believe revolutionizing biology as we know it. It has always been there and now we are simply discovering the impact it could have on us and our society. The plausible areas that can be affected by epigenetics is almost everything. Many epigenetic marks can be found within diseases such as cancer and even depression. Some of these marks are as a result of the society we grow up in. The hereditary epigenetic changes passed on from parent to child affect the way in which the child raises his children.
If researches are able to find even more factual prove of epigenetics and if they are able to inform a greater part of the world people will surely strive to improve their standard of living where they can. This will result in an overall healthier population and increase the chances of the human race’s prolong existence. It will therefore fall upon us to look after ourselves with regard to this.
Future …show more content…
Cancer has been one of the main causes of sorrow throughout mankind’s history. It was found that DNA methylation played a big role in this scenario. The tissue of the patients that had a deviated number of DNA methylation within the genes were the ones found to be faulty. Tumor-suppressor genes are turned off when a CpG site has been over methylated. These CpG sites occur where a guanine nucleotide is bonded to a cytosine nucleotide by means of a phosphate. Using what we have learned from epigenetics thus far we can formulate a plan to prevent the hyper methylation of the CpG sites. Drugs are often administered to accomplish this. The drug 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2’-doxycytidine are used in the DNA methylation process and histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC) in the Histone modification
“Epi” translated from the Greek language means “on top of” or “over”. Meaning the word epigenetics shows that certain genes will be displayed over/before others. (2) Epigenetics is the study of the phenomenon that certain genes could be expressed within an individual whilst others are suppressed. This is the idea of being able to change your phenotype without affecting/changing your genotype in any way. (1) There can be a great many things that will influence epigenetics (to many to count) some having a positive outcome, other ending up more negative. There are also different types of epigenetics we are studying namely, “DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation, histone modification, chromatin remodeling and regulation by …show more content…
Epigenetics is in fact not according to popular believe revolutionizing biology as we know it. It has always been there and now we are simply discovering the impact it could have on us and our society. The plausible areas that can be affected by epigenetics is almost everything. Many epigenetic marks can be found within diseases such as cancer and even depression. Some of these marks are as a result of the society we grow up in. The hereditary epigenetic changes passed on from parent to child affect the way in which the child raises his children.
If researches are able to find even more factual prove of epigenetics and if they are able to inform a greater part of the world people will surely strive to improve their standard of living where they can. This will result in an overall healthier population and increase the chances of the human race’s prolong existence. It will therefore fall upon us to look after ourselves with regard to this.
Future …show more content…
Cancer has been one of the main causes of sorrow throughout mankind’s history. It was found that DNA methylation played a big role in this scenario. The tissue of the patients that had a deviated number of DNA methylation within the genes were the ones found to be faulty. Tumor-suppressor genes are turned off when a CpG site has been over methylated. These CpG sites occur where a guanine nucleotide is bonded to a cytosine nucleotide by means of a phosphate. Using what we have learned from epigenetics thus far we can formulate a plan to prevent the hyper methylation of the CpG sites. Drugs are often administered to accomplish this. The drug 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2’-doxycytidine are used in the DNA methylation process and histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC) in the Histone modification