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[Evolutionary ontogenetic aspects of pathogenetics of chronic human diseases]
Abstract:
This article is a review of scientific publications, in which issues of pathogenetics of multifactorial diseases (MFDs) are considered from the viewpoint of evolution and ontogeny. Concepts explaining significance of evolutionary processes in the formation of genetic architecture of human chronic diseases ("thrifty" genomes and phenotypes, "drifting genes," decanalization) are analyzed. The roles of natural selection and genetic drift in the formation of hereditary diversity of genes for susceptibility to MFDs are considered. The modern concept of disease ontogeny (somatic mosaicism, loss ofheterozygosity, paradominant inheritance, epigenetic variability) is discussed. It is demonstrated that the evolutionary and ontogenetic approaches to analysis of genimuc and other "-omic" data are essential for understanding the biology of diseases.
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