Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., Investigator, has joined with a team of colleagues to propose an operational definition of "Epigenetics" — a rapidly growing research field that investigates heritable ...

Epigenetic aging clocks use DNA methylation patterns to measure biological age and predict health risks across human tissues.

Epigenetics, a term coined by Conrad H. Waddington in the early 1940s, originally described the complex molecular pathways that govern how a genotype manifests as a phenotype. Over time, this ...

Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

A reversible process that affects the expression of genes; often occurring on top of ("epi") genetic material, and accumulating throughout an organisms's life. Example) the methylation of DNA.