Epigenetic changes in gene expression: focus on “The liver X-receptor gene promoter is hypermethylated in a mouse model of prenatal protein restriction”

Abstract

the term epigenetics was first coined in 1942 by Waddington ([20][1]) to describe the interaction of genes with their environment during development that gives rise to a phenotype. Today, the term epigenetics is used when describing a phenotype that occurs in a manner outside conventional genetic