Epigenetics How Environment Shapes Our Genes

Name: Epigenetics How Environment Shapes Our Genes
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ISBN: 9780393342284

ISBN-10: 039334228X

ISBN-13: 9780393342284

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard C. Francis

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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.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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.15" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Richard C. Francis received his Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior from Stony Brook University and the National Research Science Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Before becoming a freelance writer he conducted widely published postdoctoral research in evolutionary neurobiology and sexual development at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.