Newspaper Quotations

I was interviewed about my thoughts on a recent environmental epigenetics study and low and behold quoted several times.

Study: Mother's diet during pregnancy can affect grandkids
By Betsy Mason CONTRA COSTA TIMES

You are not just what you eat, but what your mother and your grandmother ate as well.
A study at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute found that a pregnant mouse's diet can affect the health of her grandchildren.

"Things like this probably go on in humans, too," said molecular geneticist Kenneth Beckman of CHORI, an author of the study. Previously, scientists thought parents passed their genes on to their offspring, and no farther. But recent studies have suggested that environmental influences on those genes can also be inherited.

Click here for more and the quotes!