Luna-Palencia GR, Vásquez-Moctezuma I

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ABSTRACT

The study of epigenetics has made it possible to explain the processes that lead to different diseases such as human cancer, obesity, diabetes and others. What has excited researchers in this area is the fact that epigenetic changes on the genome are reversible, which can have a positive impact on human health. Here the different processes that achieve genetic regulation are described in a very general way, such as, methylation and demethylation of DNA in the CpG islands, post-translational modifications of histones and the so-called micro RNA (miRNA) that each day shows their influence on different normal and pathological processes.

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