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The inherited disease maths families do at funerals

Original: You're at a family funeral, doing the maths nobody says out loud. Your grandfather went this way. Your father has the sa

A discussion of epigenetics and inherited disease risk is resonating: standing at a family funeral, people confront the pattern of a grandfather's illness repeating in a father's diagnosis. The conversation centres on how gene expression can be switched by environment and lifestyle, and whether knowing a family history of disease changes what relatives can do about their own risk.

Why now: Hereditary illness and the science of epigenetics touch personal fears about family health patterns, prompting wide discussion.

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