Contemporary data concerned an input of epigenetical mechanisms into an etiology and susceptibility to complex human diseases are critically analyzed. The special attention is attended to a specific role of simple tandem DNA repeats, the crucial role of developmental epigenetics in these processes. Patterns of mitotic and intergenerational inheritance of epigenetical modifications are considered.
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