Towards a unification of the 2 meanings of “epigenetics”

Sui Huang

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001944

Towards a unification of the 2 meanings of “epigenetics”

Sui Huang

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The notion of epigenetic “marks” used by molecular biologists is conceptually disconnected from the idea of Waddington’s epigenetic “landscape” that is used by systems biologists and biophysicists. Recent advances suggest that these 2 distinct schools of thought could be united.

Original language	English
Article number	e3001944
Journal	PLoS Biology
Volume	20
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001944
State	Published - Dec 2022

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