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Kimiya Noor
Emporia Sate University
This review analyzes and summarizes the most recent scientific research papers regarding the effects of epigenetics on Type 1 Diabetes pathogenesis and treatment. It explores possible causes and environmental factors that play crucial roles in the tragic disease through epigenetic markers, including DNA methylation, microRNAs, and histone modifications. By compiling the great number of new emerging studies in this specific field, the review attempts to establish a clear connection between environmental triggers, the epigenetic modifications that follow, and the clinical benefits (diagnosis, progression markers, inhibitors, etc.) of them in juvenile diabetes. Non-epigenetic studies of this disease have not yet provided sufficient explanation for the unknown etiology and cure of this unpreventable disease, however, epigenomics can provide a novel understanding of this disease. Limitations and agreements between papers in this rapidly growing field of study are also carefully analyzed to explain further research required and how it validates and supplements research outside of epigenetics regarding Type 1 diabetes.
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Rebecca West, English author of “Indissoluble Matrimony”, was thoroughly a modernist. Modernism as a movement in England was an attempt to make sense of a world that felt alien to its inhabitants due to the cultural changes that had already occurred and the cultural shifts that were still rapidly developing (Greenblatt 1890). The formation of industry, advances in science, the reconstruction of gendered expectations and subsequent argument...
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