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-The conception of a '''maternal impression''' rests on the belief that a powerful mental (or sometimes physical) influence working on the mother's mind may produce an impression, either general or definite, on the child she is carrying. The child might be said to be "marked" as a result.+In [[biology]], and specifically [[genetics]], '''epigenetics''' is the study of changes produced in [[gene expression]] caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying [[DNA]] sequence –hence the name ''epi-'' (Greek: ''επί''- over, above, outer) ''-[[genetics]]''. Examples of such changes might be DNA methylation or histone deacetylation, both of which serve to suppress gene expression without altering the sequence of the silenced genes.
-==See also==+== See also ==
-* [[Epigenetics]]+ 
-* [[Fetal origins of adult disease]]+* [[B chromosome]]
-* [[Lamarckism]]+* [[Epigenetic Theory]]
-* [[Mary Toft]]+* [[Baldwin effect]]
-* [[Maternal effect]]+* [[Centromere]]
-* [[Mooncalf]]+* [[Computational epigenetics]]
-* [[Pseudoscience]]+* [[Dutch famine of 1944#Scientific_legacy|Dutch famine of 1944 (scientific legacy)]]
-* [[Sooterkin]]+* [[Evolutionary developmental psychology]]
 +* [[Emergenesis]]
 +* [[Histone code]]
 +* [[Human genome]]
 +* [[Molecular biology]]
 +* [[Nutriepigenomics]]
 +* [[Preformationism]]
 +* [[Somatic epitype]]
 +* [[Synthetic genetic array]]
 +* [[Weismann barrier]]
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In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of changes produced in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence –hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above, outer) -genetics. Examples of such changes might be DNA methylation or histone deacetylation, both of which serve to suppress gene expression without altering the sequence of the silenced genes.


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