... Epigenetics, the study of how experiences, environments, and exposures alter gene expression, is a vibrant new area of postgenomic life sciences research. Epigenetics research situates the maternal body as a central site of epigenetic programming and transmission, and as a significant locus...

... chimerism epigenetics metagenomics microbiome mosaicism phylogenetics ...

... epigenetics reactive genome gene action adaptability plasticity ...

... Body Mass Index globesity epigenetics plasticity scales ...

... embodiment materialization reproduction epigenetics evolution noncontemporaneity time biocultural creatures ...

... biocultural creatures biopolitics embodied subjectivity biocultural habitats epigenetics environmental reductionism biological reductionism ...

... Human Genome Project genome-wide association studies missing heritability ENCODE epigenetics science studies ...

... developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) epigenetics gene-environment interaction genetic determinism maternal-fetal public health ...

... Poised at a critical turning point in the history of genetics, postgenomic research in epigenetics and genomic plasticity obliges us to critically reexamine many of our most basic concepts. This essay argues that genomic research supports a radical transformation in our understanding...