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    Disruption of Epigenetic Mechanisms in Autoimmune Syndromes

    Autoimmune disorders are a heterogeneous group of both systemic and organ-specific diseases characterized by the abnormal recognition of self-components by the immune system. These are genetically complex dise...

    Lorenzo de la Rica, Esteban Ballestar in Patho-Epigenetics of Disease (2012)

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    An Introduction to Epigenetics

    Eukaryotic genomic information is modulated by a variety of epigenetic modifications that play both a direct role in establishing transcription profiles, modulation of DNA replication and repair processes and ...

    Esteban Ballestar in Epigenetic Contributions in Autoimmune Disease (2011)

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    Examining DNA–Protein Interactions with Genome-Wide Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Analysis

    Understanding the mechanisms by which genomic information is hierarchically organized and used by different cell and tissue types under different physiological conditions requires the detailed analysis of the ...

    Esteban Ballestar, Manel Esteller in Modern Molecular Biology (2010)

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    A Changing Epigenome in Health and Disease

    In mammals, epigenetic modifications play an essential role both in establishing transcription profiles and in organizing DNA architecture within the cell nucleus. Specifically, the role of epigenetic modifica...

    Esteban Ballestar, Manel Esteller in Epigenomics (2009)