Our genome changes over lifetime, Johns Hopkins experts say
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 01:07
in Health & Medicine
May explain many 'late-onset' diseases Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that epigenetic marks on DNA-chemical marks other than the DNA sequence-do indeed change over a person's lifetime, and that the degree of change is similar among family members. Reporting in the June 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the team suggests that overall genome health is heritable and that epigenetic changes occurring over one's lifetime may explain why disease susceptibility increases with age.
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