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Human Epigenome

Speaker: Manolis Kelli's

Source of the video: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

The human epigenome is a set of structural modifications of chromatin and chemical modifications of histones and nucleotides that affect cellular type and development status.

It is made up of chemical compounds and proteins that can attach to DNA and direct actions such as turning genes on or off, controlling the production of proteins in particular cells.

The human genome is the complete assembly of DNA, which holds the instructions for building the proteins that carry out a variety of functions in a cell.The epigenome depends on exogenous factors.