http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/how-often-is-the-word-epigenetics-used-more-than-ever/ Discoveries and advances in the field of epigenetics Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/how-often-is-the-word-epigenetics-used-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-8144 Trevor Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:07:42 +0000 http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/2007/04/26/how-often-is-the-word-epigenetics-used-more-than-ever/#comment-8144 That's an interesting point, and one that I have actually seen some evidence of. I have seen evidence of researchers invoking "epigenetics" when postulating on what may be happening in their specific system, even though they have no data or inclination that anything related to epigenetics is occurring. Will epigenetics become an easy fall-back "answer" for geneticists when they don't understand how a disease occurs by searching for classical genetic causes? I would hope not -- epigenetics shouldn't overshadow classical genetics, it should enhance and support it. That’s an interesting point, and one that I have actually seen some evidence of. I have seen evidence of researchers invoking “epigenetics” when postulating on what may be happening in their specific system, even though they have no data or inclination that anything related to epigenetics is occurring. Will epigenetics become an easy fall-back “answer” for geneticists when they don’t understand how a disease occurs by searching for classical genetic causes? I would hope not — epigenetics shouldn’t overshadow classical genetics, it should enhance and support it.

]]> http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/how-often-is-the-word-epigenetics-used-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-8139 Siredon Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:06:57 +0000 http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/2007/04/26/how-often-is-the-word-epigenetics-used-more-than-ever/#comment-8139 Couldn't some of the increase be because more researchers are hearing of the concept and applying it in their discussions? I did not know what epigenetics was until last year, and I applied it in my thesis. This was not a thesis based on molecular studies, but rather it was concerned with systematics and phenotype in a rapidly changing clade. Couldn’t some of the increase be because more researchers are hearing of the concept and applying it in their discussions? I did not know what epigenetics was until last year, and I applied it in my thesis. This was not a thesis based on molecular studies, but rather it was concerned with systematics and phenotype in a rapidly changing clade.

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