APSY 031 Masterpasqua Writing

How do environmental and psychosocial factors can change the epigenome? One’s epigenome can be changed based on what the person eats or drinks, whether the person exercises or not, whether the person smokes or what medicine the person takes. In other words, epigenetic researchers have discovered that the environment, both the physical and the social aspect of it can cause changes in the molecular structure that expresses the gene and these can be passed down to future generations. Waterland and Jirtle (2003)‘s study showed how changes in mice mothers' diet during pregnancy could change the epigenome and phenotype of their offspring. The food ingested has the nutrition that goes directly to the child, which affects the next generation. Champagne et al. (2006) has found that the variations observed in maternal care of mice can be passed on ...

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