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(Excerpt) At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea -- that genes have a 'memory'. That the lives of your grandparents -- the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw -- can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself. And that what you do in your lifetime could in turn affect your grandchildren. (End)
Also, a defective gene can cause a different disease depending from which parent it was received. For example, if gene “123” causes disease “A” they know it was inherited from the mother and if it causes disease “B” they know it was inherited from the father even though the gene has the identical defect.
Furthermore, let’s say a person is exposed to a cancer-causing toxin. That gene is switched off and passed on to the children and then on to their children resulting in the grandchildren having a greater rate of cancer due to the toxin their grandfather was exposed to.
That reminds me of the Biblical warning that the “sins” of the father are passed on to the children and on to their children. “Sin” being something bad that happened to the father, not necessarily something the father actually did.
Fascinating stuff! It’s called Epigenetics.
Also, a defective gene can cause a different disease depending from which parent it was received. For example, if gene “123” causes disease “A” they know it was inherited from the mother and if it causes disease “B” they know it was inherited from the father even though the gene has the identical defect.
Furthermore, let’s say a person is exposed to a cancer-causing toxin. That gene is switched off and passed on to the children and then on to their children resulting in the grandchildren having a greater rate of cancer due to the toxin their grandfather was exposed to.
That reminds me of the Biblical warning that the “sins” of the father are passed on to the children and on to their children. “Sin” being something bad that happened to the father, not necessarily something the father actually did.
Fascinating stuff! It’s called Epigenetics.