The epigenetics revolution
by Nessa Carey · first published 2011
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"Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable introduction to the foundations of epigenetics. Nessa Carey, a leading epigenetics researcher, connects the field's arguments to such diverse pheno
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…being created, and each round of DNA replication has a chance to introduce errors. [Reference: Molecular Biology of the Cell, chapter 21, which is an interesting book] Last week I read the book "The Epigenetics Revolution", which I recommend as it gives a good description of epigenetics. http://www.amazon.com/The-Epigenetics-Revolution-Understandi... (non-affiliate link)
on “Why Fathers Really Matter” ↗Interesting. I may be biased in the other direction after reading "The Epigenetics Revolution" and "Junk DNA" by Nessa Carey. ENCODE is such an amazing project! Also, thanks for your research on non coding DNA.
on “New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA” ↗…objects. The junk DNA doesn't explicitly get read, but it interacts in nonlinear ways with the executable "text" portion of the DNA. Also disclaimer: My only knowledge of this is from Nessa Carey's The Epigenetics Revolution and some additional online reading.
on “The human genome is, at long last, complete” ↗I read it in a book called The Epigenetics Revolution, so I'm going to stick with what the author wrote there.
on “Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance” ↗