Epigenetics

I’m trying to study for my English course and I need some help to understand this question.

When we think of the traits that we have we often think of them as being products of our genes. However, we never think of the fact that there are factors that control for the expression of our genes. Epigenes are important chemical tags siting on our DNA that are responsible for the activation or deactivation of the genes that we have.

For this discussion board I would like you to look for a news article on epigenetics.

You will need to do the following for points:

1. Give a short summary (1 page) of what the news headline is about. Your news headline can deal with any aspect of epigenetics. Make sure you give a citation.
2. As part of your summary you will have to say how the epigene(s) that you looked at is/are responsible for gene regulation. Alternatively, you can talk about how environmental factors can influence the epigenes.

Here are a few links that would help you.

• Epigenetics overivew from the University of Utah.
  • View “Epigenome At a Glance (Links to an external site.)“
  • Explore interactive activity “Gene Control (Links to an external site.)“
  • Read and view “Insights From Identical Twins (Links to an external site.)“
  • Nova Science Now: Epigenetics (Links to an external site.)