March 3, 2008
Epigenetics, the tricky study of genes and race
People are more than 99.9 percent identical at the level of their DNA, the Human Genome Project has found. But which genes you have isn’t the whole story. What also matters is how strongly those genes are expressed, or turned on. To use an analogy I’ve tried before, DNA is like your iPod downloads: what counts isn’t only what you’ve stored, but whether you play it. So what matters about DNA is not only which genes you have, but which ones are expressed and at what levels.
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Read Dr. Bruce Lipton’s book The Biology
of Belief and Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion.