Perceptions of Epigenetics

Overview

Journal Nature

Specialty Science

Date 2007 May 25

PMID 17522671

Citations 1018

Authors

Adrian Bird

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Abstract

Geneticists study the gene; however, for epigeneticists, there is no obvious 'epigene'. Nevertheless, during the past year, more than 2,500 articles, numerous scientific meetings and a new journal were devoted to the subject of epigenetics. It encompasses some of the most exciting contemporary biology and is portrayed by the popular press as a revolutionary new science--an antidote to the idea that we are hard-wired by our genes. So what is epigenetics?

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