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			<title>Epigenetic test could inform breast cancer risk prediction</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2012/#story_11771</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UK researchers have published data in the journal Cancer Research showing a strong link between an epigenetic modification of a gene in white blood cells and the risk of breast cancer.  &amp;nbsp;  The Breast Cancer Campaign funded scientists examined methylation levels in the ATM gene among 1380 women, ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Epigenetics research gets a boost</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2012/#story_11751</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Scientists have invented a technique that will help researchers in the field of epigenetics better understand how changes in the epigenome impact human health.Epigenetics is the branch of genetics that examines how different genes are switched on or off in response to modifications in the DNA.  The  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Epigenetic links with schizophrenia risk</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2012/#story_11551</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Studies into schizophrenia are revealing new insights into the genetic and environmental influences on the disease.  Scientists have previously found that genetic factors account for about 50% of the risk of developing schizophrenia, leaving the other 50% to external or environmental factors, the ef ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Diet in pregnancy affects babies' genes</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2012/#story_11343</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ There is increasing evidence that the prenatal environment can genuinely influence the long-term health of offspring, and that genetic mechanisms underlie these links. More work is needed to understand these processes, and their potential public health implications. ]]></description>
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			<title>Call for genomics to shed light on chronic wound repair</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2011/#story_10652</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ New projects are to investigate the genomics of chronic wound repair.  &amp;nbsp;  Chronic wounds are defined as those that have not healed within three months; such non-healing tissue lesions can be a particular problem in certain patient groups such as the elderly and diabetics, and also predispose ho ... ]]></description>
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			<title>How your childhood might change your genes</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2011/#story_10405</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Changes in genes identified in middle-aged men may be the result of a childhood lived in poverty, according to new research.Analysing the DNA of 40 men, aged 45 at time of sample collection and raised in households belonging to the top and bottom 20 per cent of the socioeconomic scale, scientists ha ... ]]></description>
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			<title>New epigenetic map resource in development</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2011/#story_8773</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Epigenetic maps already completed of human embryonic stem (HES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have reportedly shown significant differences, with potential implications for the development of stem cell therapeutics - although other work reported earlier this year that epigenetic and ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Report on RNA research calls for European network</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2010/#story_6089</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Whilst it may seem unhelpful to call for moves to be funded by individual countries and centres at a time when most budgets are under pressure, the ESF report is right to highlight the likely importance of RNA in genomic medicine of the future. ]]></description>
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			<title>Epigenome maps released</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2010/#story_5919</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The US National Institutes of Health&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;Roadmap Epigenomics Project&amp;nbsp;has begun its first major release of data, Nature News&amp;nbsp;reports.  The project aims to map and annotate the human&amp;nbsp;epigenome, and to identify which particular&amp;nbsp;epigenetic&amp;nbsp;states &amp;ndash; changes in the  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Structural Genomics Consortium - 1000th protein structure</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2010/#story_5817</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) has just announced the release of its 1000th high-resolution protein structure.  &amp;nbsp;  The Consortium was formed in 2004 as an international non-for-profit partnership to determine the three-dimensional structures of medically relevant proteins.&amp;nbsp;All re ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Major new epigenetics project launched in UK and China</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2010/#story_5673</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A major new initiative to investigate epigenetics has been launched in the UK. Epitwin is a collaborative venture between the&amp;nbsp;TwinsUK research group based at King&amp;rsquo;s College London (see previous news) and the Bejing Genomics Institure (BGI) in Shenzhen, China (see previous news).  &amp;nbsp;   ... ]]></description>
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			<title>International cancer genome consortium: data for all</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2010/#story_5408</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Cancer is acknowledged to be a major public health problem for both industrialised and developing nations, with more than a quarter of deaths attributable to cancer in many countries. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cancer rates could increase to 12 million new cases by 2030. &amp;nbsp ... ]]></description>
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			<title>First human epigenome mapped</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2009/#story_4883</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Since almost every cell in the body contains the same genetic sequence, additional mechanisms are required to achieve tissue-specific gene expression and cell differentiation. Thus, heritable biological factors that influence gene expression can be divided into two categories: the DNA sequence itsel ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Functional studies of a cancer risk variant located in gene desert</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2009/#story_4737</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Numerous genome-wide association (GWA) studies have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a region of chromosome 8q24 confer an increased susceptibility to both colorectal and prostate cancers. Resequencing of the region suggests that one particular SNP (rs6983267) may be the causal v ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Epigenetics, viruses and cancer</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2009/#story_4499</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ It has been estimated that around 15% of cancer cases worldwide are linked to viral infections, accounting for 1.5 million cases and 1 million deaths per annum. Particularly well studied oncogenic viruses include the human papilloma virus (HPV) linked with cervical cancer, the hepatitis B virus (HBV ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Map of human imprinted genes</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2007/#story_3944</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In classical genetics, two copies of each gene are expressed from the autosomal chromosomes, one maternal and one paternal in origin. As a result, recessive diseases only manifest when two copies of the disease gene are present, inherited from parents who are both carriers. In some cases, however, o ... ]]></description>
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