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How the genome got a life span
Authors:Martine Lappé
Institution:1. Columbia University Center for Research on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic, &2. Behavioral Genetics, New York, USA
Abstract:In the space of little more than a decade, ideas of the human genome have shifted significantly, with the emergence of the notion that the genome of an individual changes with development, age, disease, environmental inputs, and time. This paper examines the emergence of the genome with a life span, one that experiences drift, instability, and mutability, and a host of other temporal changes. We argue that developments in chromatin biology have provided the basis for this genomic embodiment of experience and exposure. We analyze how time has come to matter for the genome through chromatin, providing analysis of examples in which the human life course is being explored as a set of material changes to chromatin. A genome with a life span aligns the molecular and the experiential in new ways, shifting ideas of life stages, their interrelation, and the temporality of health and disease.
Keywords:environmental epigenetics  embodiment  health  development  aging
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