Lecture 6 Flashcards
1
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DoHaD
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Environmental factors (nutrition,
chemical exposures, etc.) during prenatal
and postnatal development alter
susceptibility to adult chronic diseases
by influencing developmental plasticity, originally known as Barker’s Hypothesis
2
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epigenetics
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“The branch of biology which studies the
interactions of genes and their environment that
bring the phenotype into being
3
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genome
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complete set of DNA in a cell
4
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epigenome
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chemical compounds that modify the genome
5
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DNA methylation
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the process by which a methyl group is added to DNA regulating gene expression and contributing to disease
6
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histone modifications
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modification(s) directly influencing the overall structure of chromatin, either over short or long distances
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