Category: epigenetics

Learn more about genetics and epigenetics

Genetics, DNA and spontaneous mutations The fertilised egg inherits its DNA unchanged from the parents’ sex chromosomes. The same DNA sequence is then found in all the baby’s cells. During our lifetime, spontaneous mutations can occur in the cells. Spontaneous mutations happen as a result of apparently chance errors in...

Your lifstile impacts the risk of type 2 diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes have epigenetic changes in their DNA that healthy individuals do not have. This has been shown in a major survey by researchers at Lund University. The researchers also found a large number of genes that contribute to reduced insulin production because of these epigenetic changes....

Methylation patterns from cancer tumours. Read more in Facts.

Do you know your epigenome?

Every person is born with a unique set of genes that they inherit from their parents. The only exception is identical twins, who are born with identical DNA sequences. With the years, even twins develop increasing differences in appearance and in the diseases they get. Why is this? The answer...