epimutation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.

词形变化

epimutations plural

词源

From epi- + mutation; compare epigenetic.
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