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pointer to the NOVA program on epigenetics “Ghost in Your Genes” (YouTube link here). Fantastic footage. Great intro to epigenetics and so-called trans-generational effects and the inheritance of epigenetic marks – which, in some cases – are left by adverse or stressful experience. A weird, wild, game-changing concept indeed – that my grandchildren could inherit epigenetic changes induced in my genome by adverse experience.
[…] Will lifestyle choices you make effect your grandchildren epigenetically? The details of a NOVA documentary on this question are over at Genes to Brains to Mind to Me. […]