The Need for an Human Epigenome Project

In a failure to thoroughly understand genetic diseases by mapping the human genome, scientists are now striving to dig deeper. Researchers with diverse interests have made discoveries implicating epigenetics to “play a major role in human diseases”, but do these discoveries warrant the need for a Human Epigenome Project? Peter Jones, D. Sc., director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, along with 39 other scientists, believe so.

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