Digitizing the Environment: Epigenomic Medicine and the Environmental Impact on Health and Disease
Pier Giuseppe Pelicci - Professor of Pathology, University of Milan; Director, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology
From 2015 > Eleventh World conference - Precision Medicine: Present Challenges for Future Cures
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Speaker & abstract
Emerging evidence suggest that environmental factors and lifestyles might influence health and diseases by inducing alterations of chromatin (epigenomic modifications or epimutations), without causing changes in the underlying DNA sequence.