La adaptación biológica heredable: avances y novedades
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Cuestas, E. (2009). La adaptación biológica heredable: avances y novedades. Médicas UIS, 22(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistamedicasuis/article/view/222

Abstract

 

 

OBJECTIVES: to present the most recent advances made in epigenetics research. 

SOURCES: Non-systematic review of the literature, in order to obtain relevant and updated references related to the subject. 

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: studies remarks methylation, histone modifcation, and the action of non-coding RNA processes, as key mechanisms to occur phenotypic changes by hereditable environmental effects. 

CONCLUSIONS: the knowledge of these factors could change the approach of developmental and evolutionary biology, and its applications to medical science with a new approach to the concepts of health and disease. 

Key words: Epigenetics. Genotype. Phenotype.

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