Salk scientists reveal epigenome maps of the human body's major organs
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
A team at the Salk Institute mapped comprehensive epigenomes of several organs and tissue types from four different donors, which could help better understand health and disease. For more than a decade, scientists have had a working map of the human genome, a complete picture of the DNA sequence that encodes human life. But new pages are still being added to that atlas: maps of chemical markers called methyl groups that stud strands of DNA and influence which genes are repressed and when.