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Paramutation logo #10101) Gene expression
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Paramutation logo #21000 In epigenetics, a paramutation is an interaction between two alleles at a single locus, whereby one allele induces a heritable change in the other allele. The change may be in the pattern of DNA methylation, for example. The allele inducing the change is said to be paramutagenic, whilst the allele that has been epigenetically altered is termed par...
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paramutation logo #21003(from the article `Life Sciences`) ...such as DNA instability or histone methylation (a chemical change in a chromosome protein). The pattern of non-Mendelian inheritance found by ...
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