Is epidemiology ready for epigenetics?

Abstract excerpt

The revellers depicted in the painting by the Dutch artist Judith Leyster (1609–60) (Figure 1) will not have given epigenetics a passing thought. Little were they to know that indulgences, such as drinking alcohol and smoking, would be contributing to their ‘exposome’1 and marking their epigenome to potentially compromise their future health. The skeleton proffering an hourglass is perhaps a portent of the perils...

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