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Police can now tell identical twins apart - just melt their DNA - life - 24 April 2015 ... - 0 views

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  • Lottie Peppers on 26 Apr 15
     
    Graham Williams at the University of Huddersfield, UK, has a different way - to look for modifications to the twins' DNA that have come about as a result of their lifestyles. Such epigenetic changes occur when a chemical group known as a methyl group attaches to a gene and modifies the way it is expressed. This happens as a body is influenced by a person's environment, lifestyle and disease.
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