The most common form of an allele is designated the major allele ... Every individual has two copies, or alleles, or a single gene. When the alleles are the same, they are known as homozygotes. When ...

For instance, DNA methylation is central to inexhaustible biological processes, such as gene regulation and cell fate decisions. In mammals, DNA methyltransferases are key for blastocysts to re ...

Were it not for a single base pair insertion/deletion mutation in the MMP3 gene sequence, the incidence of heart disease among modern Europeans would be much higher, according to the authors of a ...

Heterozygous loss in gene encoding methyl-CpG binding protein Zbtb38 leads to early embryonic death via the suppression of transcription factors Nanog and Sox2 Ikoma, Japan—DNA methylation is a ...