Concept

Epigenetic landscape alteration by viral infection

  • Most of the viruses belonging to the family of corona and influenza virus are usually incapable of hacking the host genetic sequence, while they might alter the host epigenome
  • It has been demonstrated that several viruses' families antagonize the immune system by employing a series of epigenetic mechanisms, and, likely, the SARS CoV-2 might use the same strategy.

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Updated 2020-12-10

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences