Latest Computational epigenetics Stories

U.S. scientists say they might have found the genetic cause of so-called late onset diseases. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered epigenetic marks on DNA -- chemical marks other than the DNA sequence -- change over a person's lifetime and the degree of change is similar among family members. The scientists suggest that overall genome health is heritable and that epigenetic changes occurring over one's lifetime might explain why disease susceptibility increases with age....