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Epigenetic regulation of transcription. DNA is compressed in the nucleus as chromatin. The building block of chromatin is the nucleosome, which consists of 8 DNA wrapped histones.. Epigenetic regulation involves DNA methylation, histone acetylation and histone methylation that depending on the combination of modifications lead to transcriptional repression or transcriptional activation.
