• DOI:10.1038/nature05913
Corpus ID: 4357965

Perceptions of epigenetics

@article{Bird2007PerceptionsOE,
  title={Perceptions of epigenetics},
  author={A. Bird},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={447},
  pages={396-398}
}

• A. Bird
• Published 2007
• Medicine
• Nature

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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?