For twins as close as the Mitchells, living in sync seems to come naturally. Photograph by Jodi Cobb Feinberg's study focuses on a particular epigenetic process called DNA methylation, which is ...

These can be things like nutrition, temperature, exposures to toxins, and position in the womb, and they can cause small differences in twins both before or after birth. Epigenetics don't change ...

Molecular biologist Arturas Petronis and his colleagues at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada compared DNA methylation patterns from epithelial cells inside the mouths of 39 ...

Epigenetic silencing is one way to turn genes off, and it can contribute to differential expression. Silencing might also explain, in part, why genetic twins are not phenotypically identical.

Scientists are still teasing out the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to epigenetic marks on the genome. Differences in DNA methylation patterns have been linked to various disease ...

Why do identical twins sometimes experience different health ... Just how much does our environment shape us? The answer is epigenetics, the complex interplay between genes inherited from parents ...

Optimal technology for epidemiologically-based epigenetic studies and longitudinal samples of 100 stringently characterised discordant MZ twins for exposure to psychosocial stress during adolescence ...

The best example is the differential phenotypic presentation of older monozygotic twins (10). Epigenetics is a science of heritable biologic adaptation, a concept that will become evident in the ...

Our research is focused on understanding the role of genetics and environment in epigenetic processes, and how they relate to the development of common diseases and complex traits. Our projects ...