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ArticleCells2025

A Biophysics of Epigenetic Rejuvenation.

Prim B Singh

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Article in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Prim B SinghDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, 5/1 Kerei, Zhanibek Khandar Street, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0002-9571-0974

Funding

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan AP19678932
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a synthesis based on epigenetics, machine learning and polymer physics from which emerges new relationships between the thermodynamic Flory-Huggins parameter (χ), epigenetic age (eAge) and Shannon entropy. Using a framework for the estimation of χ in the nuclear environment we show that χ∝eAge-1 and χ∝Shannon Entropy-1. As cells age, epigenetic drift results in "smoothing out" of the epigenetic landscape reducing the magnitude of χ. Epigenetic rejuvenation reverses epigenetic drift and restores χ to levels found in young cells with concomitant reduction in both eAge and Shannon entropy.

Indexed as

BiophysicsEpigenesis, GeneticRejuvenationEntropyHumansThermodynamicsage reprogrammingeAgeepigenetic rejuvenationFlory–Huggins parameterH3K27me3H3K9me3Hi-Cpartial reprogrammingShannon entropy

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PMID40862728
PMCPMC12384271

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