Epigenomics
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The study of the effects of chromatin structure on the function of the included genes. uncountable
"'Epigenomics' can be termed as the study of the effects of chromatin structure, including the higher order of chromatin folding and attachment to the nuclear matrix, packaging of DNA around nucleosomes, covalent modifications of histone tails and DNA methylation."
Example
More examples"'Epigenomics' can be termed as the study of the effects of chromatin structure, including the higher order of chromatin folding and attachment to the nuclear matrix, packaging of DNA around nucleosomes, covalent modifications of histone tails and DNA methylation."
Etymology
From epi- + genomics.
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