“…Almost all disease states can be attributed to genetic or epigenetic information found within the diseased host that is different from that of the normal host, with the exception of prion diseases [1][2][3][4]. The disease-causing genetic information might reside in the genomic DNA or RNA, or in a virus, bacterium, or other pathogen, or from alterations in the methylation pattern of DNA, which in turn alters RNA expression levels.…”