Watch How Your Choices Can Affect Your Genes Video | Intro to Epigenetics

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Keep calm. No, seriously. It’s good for your genes.

“Here’s a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA … so how can they turn out so different — even in traits that have a significant genetic component?

“Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna explains that while nature versus nurture has a lot to do with it, a deeper, related answer can be found within something called epigenetics.” – YT

“Notably, epigenetic patterns are specific for each cell type of an individual.

“Therefore, in each tissue, epigenetic patterns correlate with the expression profile observed in these specific cell types. The epigenetic map of a particular cell is called the epigenome.

“Interestingly, each individual is composed of one genome, but of multiple epigenomes, each corresponding to one specific cell type.”

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