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The ghost in our genes: legal and ethical implications of epigenetics.
Article in Health matrix (Cleveland, Ohio : 1991), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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34 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Open Questions on the Electromagnetic Field Contribution to the Risk of Neurodegenerative Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Maternal epigenetic responsibility: what can we learn from the pandemic?Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2022Article
- Ethical implications of epigenetics in the era of personalized medicine.Clinical epigenetics · 2022Review
- Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics.Sociology · 2021Article
- The social construction of the social epigenome and the larger biological context.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2020Review
- Parent Perspectives Towards Genetic and Epigenetic Testing for Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Communicating science: epigenetics in the spotlight.Environmental epigenetics · 2020Review
- Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses.Social studies of science · 2019Review
- Epigenetics of the Synapse in Neurodegeneration.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2019Review
- Points-to-consider on the return of results in epigenetic research.Genome medicine · 2019Review
- Transgenerational and intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in allergic diseases.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2018Review
- Epigenome-based cancer risk prediction: rationale, opportunities and challenges.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2018Review
- Epigenetics Changes Nothing: What a New Scientific Field Does and Does Not Mean for Ethics and Social Justice.Public health ethics · 2018Article
- Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and social responsibility: perspectives from the social sciences.Environmental epigenetics · 2018Review
- Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues for the Implementation of Omics-Based Risk Prediction of Women's Cancer: Points to Consider.Public health genomics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Epigenetics is one of the most scientifically important, and legally and ethically significant, cutting-edge subjects of scientific discovery. Epigenetics link environmental and genetic influences on the traits and characteristics of an individual, and new discoveries reveal that a large range of environmental, dietary, behavioral, and medical experiences can significantly affect the future development and health of an individual and their offspring. This article describes and analyzes the ethical and legal implications of these new scientific findings.
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