epimutation

epimutation
A heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.

The first sign of cellular abnormality in some tumors is an epimutation—a change in heritable chromatin marks, such as an increase or decrease in the density of DNA methylation.


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