Epigenome Definition

ĕpĭ-jēnōm
noun
The set of heritable chemical changes to an organism's genome, such as DNA methylation or histone modification, that modify gene expression but do not change the DNA sequence itself.
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epigenome
Plural:
epigenomes

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