Perceptions of epigenetics

Adrian Bird
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Adrian Bird: Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh University, The King's Buildings

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7143, 396-398

Abstract: 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?

Date: 2007
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