Epigenetics & Environmental Diseases

(4 Credits)

Covers environmental effects on gene expression via epigenetic mechanisms; DNA methylation, histone modifications and micro RNA. Provides basic understanding of epigenetic modifications; methods of epigenome analysis; candidate gene approaches; genome-wide histone modifications (ChIP-Seq), transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq), multigenerational effects; imprinting; and epigenetic disease biomarkers.