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Epigenetics: Different under the skin

Nature volume 487, pages 298–299 (2012)Cite this article

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Michael G. Sargent enjoys a discussion of twin studies that aims to unpick the effects of nurture on nature.

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  1. Michael Sargent is a developmental biologist at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, and author of Biomedicine and the Human Condition: Challenges, Risks and Rewards.,

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Sargent, M. Epigenetics: Different under the skin. Nature 487, 298–299 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487298a

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