Posted by Larry Hoover on January 19, 2009, at 8:06:48
In reply to Re: Epigenetics and mental illness, posted by Phillipa on January 17, 2009, at 23:34:08
> Like skin cancer sun damages skin and ages skin makes it more suseptible to skin cancer cause the epigenes have been altered like the lung and smoking ages the lung.
I believe you've picked examples of genetic injury leading to e.g. cancer. Not to say that epigenetic changes don't also occur, but gene mutations are found in both situations.
> So what a mother ingests during preganacy can alter the child am I even close? Phillipa
Yes, what the mother ingests influences the child's development. Some, or maybe most of that effect would be epigenetic.
Lar
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