{"id":1249,"date":"2025-02-26T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:28:06","slug":"transcript-jones-epigenetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-jones-epigenetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Jones \u2013 epigenetics\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the word epigenetics actually means on top of genetics. And so what we mean when we talk about epigenetics is the sum of the modifications to DNA that don\u2019t change the sequence of DNA itself but that change the way the DNA is used. So you can think about it like light bulbs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you imagine that all of the genes in your genome are light bulbs, then the genetic sequence determines what shape the light bulb is going to be or what colour it\u2019s going to be. But the epigenome is like a dimmer switch on those light bulbs. It changes how bright that light bulb shines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we know that people\u2019s genes affect their health, they affect their personality, they affect their lifestyle. We also know that the environment affect those things almost as much. And so the epigenome is a wonderful way of finding real evidence, biological evidence that those things interact together to influence our lives and our health and our personalities and what we do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the word epigenetics actually means on top of genetics. And so what we mean when we talk about epigenetics is the sum of the modifications to DNA that don\u2019t change the sequence of DNA itself but that change the way the DNA is used. So you can think about it like light bulbs.&nbsp;&nbsp; If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}