The consequence is to inactivate the gene being methylated.

甲作用将使甲因失去活性。

As we age, some stretches of DNA get more methylated, and others less.

随着年龄增长，一DNA片段甲程度会上升，而另一则会下降。

Newborns whose mothers suffered from depression while they were pregnant are known to have more highly methylated glucocorticoid-receptor genes than others.

新生儿母亲若是在怀孕期间现抑郁症状，他们糖皮质激素受体因甲程度就会比其他新生儿更高。

Translocations can disrupt SNRNP and move the small nucleolar RNA genes away from their imprinting center, causing them to get methylated and turned off.

SNRNP因易位会破坏小核内核糖核蛋白（SNRPN），并将核仁小RNA因移印记中心，导致因甲沉默。

If the paternal imprinting center is mutated, the region gets methylated and those genes get turned off, meaning that both the maternal and paternal genes are silenced.

如果父源印记中心突变，因将被甲沉默，导致母源和父源因都处于沉默状态。

In one famous experiment, when mother rats weren't attentive enough to their pups, genes in the babies that helped them manage stress were methylated and turned off.

在一个着名实验中，当母老鼠对它们幼崽不够关心情况下，幼崽体内帮助它们管理压力因甲并且隐藏了。

If both copies of chromosome 15 were derived from the mother, that means all the prader willi genes are methylated and silenced, since there's no unsilenced paternal genes.

如果15号染色体两条同源染色体都来自母方，就意味着所有普拉德-威利因都被甲沉默，根本就没有父源因表达。