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    Area of Science:

    • Epigenetics and its role in metabolic diseases.
    • Genomic regulation and gene expression.

    Background:

    • Obesity is linked to widespread gene expression alterations.
    • Epigenetics provides a mechanism connecting lifestyle choices to genome function.
    • Early life conditions, influenced by maternal and paternal factors, impact long-term disease risk.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the role of epigenetics in obesity pathogenesis.
    • To investigate environmental factors, particularly nutrition, in inducing epigenetic modifications.
    • To highlight the potential for epigenetic markers and interventions in managing obesity.

    Main Methods:

    • Review of epidemiological, experimental, and clinical data.
    • Analysis of epigenetic mechanisms influenced by lifestyle and environmental factors.
    • Identification of potential early-life epigenetic markers for obesity.

    Main Results:

    • Epigenetic modifications are crucial in obesity development.
    • Environmental factors, including nutrition, induce transgenerational epigenetic changes.
    • Early epigenetic markers for obesity have been identified.
    • Epigenetic changes are dynamic and reversible.

    Conclusions:

    • Epigenetics is a significant factor in obesity etiopathogenesis.
    • Lifestyle interventions can reverse detrimental epigenetic changes.
    • Reversibility of epigenetic phenomena offers a promising strategy against the obesity pandemic.