1 One form of Stickler syndrome is due to mutation in the COL2A1 gene on chromosome 12 in region 12q13.11-q13.2. It is termed Stickler syndrome, type I and symbolized STL1.  A second form of Stickler syndrome is caused by mutation in the COL11A1 gene on chromosome 1 in region 1p21.
Recent technical advances in this field will give rise to conceptual advances and there is every reason to believe that a new field of cancer genetics is emerging, named here Oncogenetics: a branch of genetics describing the cause of effects of genes causing neoplasia.
Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity which are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. It is the study of gene expression, the way genes bring about their phenotypic effects. These changes in gene activity may stay for the remainder of the cell's life and may also last for many generations of cells, through cell divisions.