Behavioral epigenetics
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Behavioral epigenetics.
Why do we grow up to have the traits we do? Most 20th century scientists answered this question by referring only to our genes and our environments. But recent discoveries in the emerging field of behavioral epigenetics have revealed factors at the interface between genes and environments that also play crucial roles in development. These factors affect how genes work; scientists now know that ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0077-8923
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06037.x