表观遗传学的认知
Perceptions of epigenetics.
作者信息
Bird Adrian
机构信息
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh University, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK.
出版信息
Nature. 2007 May 24;447(7143):396-8. doi: 10.1038/nature05913.
Geneticists study the gene; however, for epigeneticists, there is no obvious 'epigene'. Nevertheless, during the past year, more than 2,500 articles, numerous scientific meetings and a new journal were devoted to the subject of epigenetics. It encompasses some of the most exciting contemporary biology and is portrayed by the popular press as a revolutionary new science--an antidote to the idea that we are hard-wired by our genes. So what is epigenetics?
遗传学家研究基因；然而，对于表观遗传学家来说，却没有明显的“表观基因”。尽管如此，在过去一年里，有超过2500篇文章、众多科学会议以及一本新期刊都致力于表观遗传学这一主题。它涵盖了一些当代最令人兴奋的生物学领域，并且被大众媒体描绘成一门革命性的新科学——是对我们由基因决定这一观点的一种修正。那么，表观遗传学究竟是什么呢？
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