Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 29-37 (9 pages) Epigenetics provides the ...

explain the difference between genetics and epigenetics. For students to grasp the basics of epigenetics, they will need an understanding of DNA and its structural chemistry in the chromosome.

Epigenetics plays a critical role in human health by regulating gene expression without the direct modification of DNA sequence. Aberrant epigenetic modifications mediated by changes in DNA and ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Epigenetics is like a symphony conductor, who with just a gesture of the baton, conveys the message to quiet the strings while turning up the horns. The symphony as a whole remains intact, but the ...

Kevin Mitchell has previously received funding from Science Foundation Ireland, Health Research Board, and the Wellcome Trust. In the battle of nature versus nurture, nurture has a new recruit: ...

Jeffrey Craig receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the Financial Markets Foundation For Children. He is affiliated with the Australian Epigenetic ...

Parents pass genes along to their offspring which equip them for their future life. In recent years, research has shown that the reality is much more complex and that parents endow much more than just ...

This is the first of two posts regarding the epigenetics of childhood adversity, based on excerpts from my new book, This Is Depression. To understand the term epigenetics, it’s necessary to have some ...

In two previous posts, I introduced essential concepts of epigenetics, the role of epigenetics in mental health broadly, and reviewed research findings on epigenetic factors that increase risk of ...