Overview: Comprehensive overview of epigenetics for a public health audience.Chapters bring together research from environmental health, psychology, pediatrics, and child development.Connects epigenetics to lif.This stimulating volume addresses vital questions about gene/environment interactions as they affect cell health from the prenatal period through later life. Beginning with a tour of epigenetic processes in the human body, the book assembles current theoretical and empirical developments across the discipline, among them transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the effects of maternal
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