DNA METHYLATION MAY RELATED TO NUTITIONAL STATUS OF BABIES as shown in this study, as well as to other disease states, suggested by other studies. This and other mechanisms are an analogy to protein post translational modification in DNA, and actually add at least three new letters to the four basic letters of the language of life, and we are just figuring it out.
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