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Lifestyle Epigenomics, a new volume in the Translational Epigenetics series, comprehensively details the interplay between lifestyle factors and epigenetic modifications associated with the onset of noncommunicable diseases and aging, shedding light on potential preventive and therapeutic strategies for disease from an epigenomics perspective. Here, more than 35 international experts in the field consider how lifestyle choices or habits can condition or prevent disease, along with tools for new research, from bioinformatics methodology to non-invasive sampling. Early, foundational chapters are followed by all-inclusive sections on epigenetic machinery in health and disease; dietary factors and epigenetics; adiposity and physical activity and epigenetics; psychological stress, social environment, toxins and contaminants exposure effects on epigenetics; and transgenerational and childhood epigenetics. To support understanding, each chapter includes a summary and key points lists, terms and definition, as well as research case studies outlining core components of recent studies, detailing their conditions, research techniques involved, and outcomes.

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Dr Crujeiras’ academic and professional trajectory has focused on translational research following a complex training that encompassed basic and clinical research. First finishing her degree in Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (July 2002), she then completed her PhD at the University of Navarra (July 2008) in the Nutrition field, implementing a successful treatment to fight obesity and its associated diseases. Later (October, 2008) she joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology at the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS) with a postdoctoral research position. There, she established a new research line on the association between obesity and cancer. From September 2011 to December 2013, in the context of a second postdoctoral stay, she joined the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain. Currently she leads the Epigenomics in Endocrinology and Nutrition research group at Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), after getting the prestigious position of Senior Researcher recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2018.

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