"There's new evidence that historical trauma is passed down through changes to the genome!"
"Genome or epigenome?"
"...epigenome."
I feel like I read of a similar study every few years, the first I can recall was 'Transgenerational response to nutrition, early life circumstances and longevity'[1], and it is always needlessly disappointing to thumb through past the headline and read that, inevitably, the media has decided to report this as a change to the genome when the actual research suggests otherwise.
Epigenetic changes are interesting in their own right! But they don't change human genes, at most they change gene expression.
"Genome or epigenome?"
"...epigenome."
I feel like I read of a similar study every few years, the first I can recall was 'Transgenerational response to nutrition, early life circumstances and longevity'[1], and it is always needlessly disappointing to thumb through past the headline and read that, inevitably, the media has decided to report this as a change to the genome when the actual research suggests otherwise.
Epigenetic changes are interesting in their own right! But they don't change human genes, at most they change gene expression.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/5201832