Investigation of nutritional and/or environmental epigenetic modulators in health and disease. University of Antwerp
Short exposure to nutrients, toxines, endocrine disruptors, hormones, famine or stress, can have longlasting consequences by epigenetic mechanisms (chromatin code, DNA methylation, noncoding RNAs) which affect the interpretation and expression of the genetic DNA blueprint. As such chronic inflammation is epigenetically recorded in the human genome and increase incidence and progression of various diseases, including metabolic disease, ...