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Zarko Stephan
Researcher at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Publications - 1
Citations - 3330
Zarko Stephan is an academic researcher from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monozygotic twin. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3117 citations.
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Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins
Mario F. Fraga,Esteban Ballestar,Maria F. Paz,Santiago Ropero,Fernando Setien,Maria Luisa Ballestar,Damia Heine-Suñer,Juan C. Cigudosa,Miguel Urioste,Javier Benitez,Manuel Boix-Chornet,Abel Sánchez-Aguilera,Charlotte Ling,Emma Carlsson,Pernille Poulsen,Allan Vaag,Zarko Stephan,Tim D. Spector,Yue Zhong Wu,Christoph Plass,Manel Esteller +20 more
TL;DR: Older monozygous twins exhibited remarkable differences in their overall content and genomic distribution of 5-methylcytosine DNA and histone acetylation, affecting their gene-expression portrait, indicating how an appreciation of epigenetics is missing from the understanding of how different phenotypes can be originated from the same genotype.