The basic building blocks of chromatin are nucleosomes, each of which is composed of 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer that consists of two copies each of H2A, H2B, H3 and H4.

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Interestingly, 10 of the 60 genes implicated in the current study are involved in chromatin modification. These include mutations in genes that encode enzymes that covalently modify histone ...