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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 142-146Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02213-7
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Identification of genes predisposing their carrier to complex diseases is a much more complicated task than finding genes involved in simple mendelian diseases. The slow progress in the genetic research of complex diseases could be due to limitations in the basic research strategy, which is almost exclusively orientated to the detection of disease-related DNA mutations or polymorphisms. I argue in this article that epigenetic misregulation of genes is more consistent with the features of complex diseases than is DNA sequence variation, and therefore that epigenetic factors could be important in understanding the origins of complex diseases.
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