The field of epigenetics is an emerging area. It aims to strengthen …

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epigenesis was unknown during the time of Gregor Mendel
• Epigenesis
• DNA Methylation and Histone Deacetylation
• Epigenetic Regulation of Development and Tissue Specificity
• Methylation of CpG Islands
• Epigenetic Regulation of Imprinted Genes
• Variable expressivity of genes
• Epigenetics and Clinical Applications
• Human Epigenome Project
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Table 1
• Table 2
• Table 3
• Figures

OOne of the authors (SK) gratefully acknowledges UGC and DST, New Delhi for providing financial support through SAP DRS and FIST programmes respectively.  Authors acknowledge Mrs. Deepa Srikumar, NIH, Bethesda, USA, for having responded our request and provided us the literature.