Study finds genomic changes in the brains of people who commit suicide
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:56
in Biology & Nature
Are genes destiny? Alternatively, are we simply the products of our environment? There is a growing sense that neither of these two possibilities fully captures the essence of the risk for psychiatric disorders. New light is being shed on the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors as the result of growth in the field of epigenetics...
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