Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body − and can clarify how diseases develop.
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Forecasts of designer babies followed the announcement of the gene-edited twins, just as they have for any reproductive technology since 1978. This signals the public must learn more about genetics.
New research is pinpointing how much genes influence the stability of educational achievement.
Almost 10% of differences in exam results at age 16 can be explained using individuals’ DNA alone.
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, King's College London
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PhD Candidate in Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, King's College London
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Reader in Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
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Research Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University
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Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California