Discovering cancers of epigenetic origin without DNA mutation

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Discovering cancers of epigenetic origin without DNA mutation

A research team has discovered that cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes, in other words, changes that contribute to how gene expression is regulated, and partly explain why, despite an identical genome, an individual develops very different cells (neurons, skin cells, etc.).