@SilverVVulpes @razibkhan @JayMan471 @hbdchick @thealthype I find this article confusing. Am I the only one?http://linkis.com/www.cbsnews.com/news/7ZM6W …
so I see here a correlation between methylation profile and ancestry, implying heritability of methylation
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and/or propensity for certain kinds of methylation. This isn't too surprising, but what's the other 25% of
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the methylation variation coming from? Does this represent heritability they just couldn't account
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for with their ancestry information, or is it noise/environment?
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there's epigenetic drift(noise), there's environmental exposure (pollution here I guess) there's enviromental...
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exposure confounded by genes(smoking) there's methlyations that are pretty much genetically programmed
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this mess is the usualhttps://twitter.com/SilverVVulpes/status/800082402903293952 …
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I can tell you know much more than I do about this, and what you're saying sounds quite reasonable
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eh, it's not just related to my field, one has to defend the Actual Epigenetics™from the altmed quacks and lamarckists
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yes, of course, epigenetics is also heritable
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often quite low but not always i.e. 15% here http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/18/5330 …
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