Epigenetics as an explanation for autism and the ‘extreme male brain’ – the implications could be immense
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Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviours and environment can cause changes that affect the way genes work.
Epigenetic changes are reversible, and they do not alter your DNA sequence. But they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence.