"early medical events are associated with clinical ASD phenotypes"

The paper by Charlotte Willfors and colleagues [1] (open-access) provides some food for thought today and the observation that various indi...

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Obesity and diabetes: Actual epigenetics or just IVF?

This press release that appeared in my newsfeed titled " You are what your parents ate! " caught my eye because I'm a new mom ...

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Epigenetics: what is it and what isn't it? Part I: basic ideas

E pigenetics is a word that has had a variety of meanings historically, and it's sometimes unclearly employed, even by the user.  But t...

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HERVs as a mechanism of genetic deletion formation: relevance to some autism?

My stark lack of knowledge in the area of genetics and specifically that linked to the human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)  that litter th...

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Maternal folate status and offspring autism risk: where are we up to?

I'd like to briefly draw your attention to the review published by Elizabeth DeVilbiss and colleagues [1] today, covering " what i...

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Remembrance of things past--in your genes? Part III: Was Lamarck so laughable?

A favorite sport of those holding to strict Darwinian views (to the extent they understand Darwin),  is to ridicule Jean Baptiste de Lamarc...

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Remembrance of things past--in your genes? Part I: Is epigenetics 'Lamarckian'?

M arcel Proust's epic novel, In Remembrance of Things Past , was a 20th century masterpiece of thoughtful reflections.  It is about smal...

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