Event: Does Genetics Matter? Help, Hype and the New Horizon of Epigenetics

October 28, 2009

Does Genetics Matter? Help, Hype and the New Horizon of Epigenetics
Progress Educational Trust
Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ, UK
18 November 2009 – 9.30am-5pm

As genetics vies with stem cells for centre stage in human biomedical research, there are dangers of both overselling future benefits (for example, the power of personal genomics) and overlooking past triumphs (for example, help for families threatened by serious monogenic/Mendelian disease). PET‘s 2009 annual conference will provide a critical examination of the current state of play in human genetics. It will be the first public event to address epigenetics before a mixed lay and specialist audience, and will feature exciting new insights into the epigenetic capture of early developmental experience and how this might explain the link between fetal/childhood adversity and later risk of adult disease.

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