{"id":13548,"date":"2015-02-25T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13548"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:53","slug":"researchers-generate-a-reference-map-of-the-human-epigenome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/researchers-generate-a-reference-map-of-the-human-epigenome","title":{"rendered":"Researchers generate a reference map of the human epigenome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent<br \/>\n<br \/> The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only part of the story, as genes can be switched on and off by a range of chemical modifications, known as \u201cepigenetic marks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, a decade after the human genome was sequenced, the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium has created a similar map of the human epigenome.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2015\/human-epigenome-map-0218\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only part of the story, as genes can be switched on and off by a range of chemical modifications, known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64820,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions\/64820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}