[News] Nature Or Nurture? New Epigenetic Model Blurs Line In The Debate

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Nature Or Nurture? New Epigenetic Model Blurs Line In The Debate

ScienceDaily (July 22, 2009) — A research report published in the journal Genetics complicates the debate over whether nature or nurture plays the most important role in complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders, heart disease, and cancer. In the report, a scientist from the University of California, Berkeley explains how epigenetics (temporary changes in gene function) and gene mutations (permanent, heritable changes in gene structure) contribute to disease risk in a population at a given time and in subsequent generations.

 

Nature Or Nurture? New Epigenetic Model Blurs Line In The Debate