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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes (Paperback)
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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes (Paperback)

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Synopsis
The burgeoning new science of epigenetics offers a cornucopia of insights-some comforting, some frightening. For example, the male fetus may be especially vulnerable to certain common chemicals in our environment, in ways that damage not only his own sperm but also the sperm of his sons. And it's epigenetics that causes identical twins to vary widely in their susceptibility to dementia and cancer. But here's the good news: unlike mutations, epigenetic effects are reversible. Indeed, epigenetic engineering is the future of medicine.

Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393342284
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 210 g
Dimensions: 211 x 140 x 18 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS
"Epigenetics explains all this in clear, no-nonsense prose. . . . One particularly excellent chapter explains epigenetic change through the body of steroid-addled baseball player Jose Canseco, from his brain to his testicles." -- Josh Rothman - Boston Globe
"Francis's primer introduces a new field. It's a thorough guide to the many ways in which personality and health can play out through our genes but not be coded for in DNA." -- Christine Kenneally - Slate

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“Good intro to a new idea”

The concept of epigenetics appeals to me as it's an alternative to the fatalistic argument in the nature/nurture debate that our potential is predetermined by our inherited package. This book shows that it... More

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