Definition of "epigenomic" [epigenomic]

• Describing a representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region. (adjective)

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• "The absence of patent sniping might diminish some of the urgency, but the upside is that the epigenomic map is free and available to anyone -- although only a tiny fraction has thus far been made."
• ""Epigenetics is one of the fastest-moving areas of science, period," said Melanie Ehrlich , a Tulane University epigeneticist whose lab linked human cancer to epigenomic changes in 1983."
• "But at least the epigenomic mapping effort seems to have learned something from the gene-patenting frenzy that loomed over the Human Genome Project."