Epigenetics and genetic determinism

Burbano, Hernán A.

doi:10.1590/s0104-59702006000400004

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“…On the one hand, epigenetics may serve as argument against gene-centric views of human identity and health, often referred to as ‘genetic essentialism’ and/or ‘genetic determinism’ (Burbano, 2006: 861; Canning, 2008; Gonon and Moisan, 2013: 29; Kuzawa and Sweet, 2009: 11; Lock, 2015: 152). On the other hand, epigenetics may also serve as argument against controversial claims that social and other environmental influences are more important for individuality (e.g.…”

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Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

2019

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Epigenetics, defined as ‘the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence’, has emerged as a promissory yet controversial field of scientific inquiry over the past decade. Scholars from many disciplines have formulated both optimistic and cautionary claims regarding its potential normative implications. This article provides a comprehensive review of the nascent literature at the crossroads of epigenetics, ethics, law and society. It describes nine emerging areas of discussion, relating to (1) the impact of epigenetics on the nature versus nurture dualism, (2) the potential resulting biologization of the social, (3) the meaning of epigenetics for public health, its potential influence on (4) reproduction and parenting, (5) political theory and (6) legal proceedings, and concerns regarding (7) stigmatization and discrimination, (8) privacy protection and (9) knowledge translation. While there is some degree of similarity between the nature and content of these areas and the abundant literature on ethical, legal and social issues in genetics, the potential implications of epigenetics ought not be conflated with the latter. Critical studies on epigenetics are emerging within a separate space of bioethical and biopolitical investigations and claims, with scholars from various epistemological standpoints utilizing distinct yet complementary analytical approaches.

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Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

2019

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“…(Kwon, et al, 2011;Lee, et al, 2012;Lee, et al, 2011;Park, et al, 2011;Shim, et al, 2011). 학생들이 올바른 유전 개념을 형성하려면 유전자가 형질을 결정하는 과정 뿐 아니라 유전자의 형질 발현에 환경이 영향을 끼치는 것 (Burbano, 2006)…”

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Teachers' Conceptions about the Genetic Determinism of Human Behaviors

Kim)¹,

서혜애²

2014

Journal of The Korean Association For Research In Science Educa

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Genetic determinism of human behaviors is considered as a philosophical perspective that genes in humans determine biological as well as social traits. However, many biologists agree that human traits are determined by interactions between genes and genes, as well as between genes and environments. In this context, genetic determinism still affect ideas of the general public as well as research directions of biologists. According to Clément's KVP model (Castéra & Clément, 2012), teachers' conceptions of genetic determinism influence students' concepts of genetics. This study intends to investigate teachers' conceptions on genetic determinism of human behaviors. For this end, a questionnaire adopted from a previous research (Castéra & Clément, 2012) has been administered to 308 teachers including 151 pre-service and 157 in-service. Factor analysis has been conducted to extract major factors and one-way ANOVA has been employed to find out differences in extracted factors among different groups of teachers. Four factors have been extracted from 14 items of questionnaire, including factor 1, a perspective of genetic determinism of gender differences in intellectual ability, social status, and emotional traits; factor 2, a perspective of genetic determinism of individual differences in intellectual ability; factor 3, a perspective of genetic determinism of individual differences in biological immune function and behavioral trait; and factor 4, a perspective of genetic determinism of ethnic differences. From the results of One-way ANOVA among teacher groups on four factors, first, it has shown a significant difference in factor 1 (F=3.325, p=.006), factor 3 (F=3.320, p=.006) and factor 4 (F=4.325, p=.001) due to their subject matters. In post-hoc comparison there have been no significant difference between biology teachers and other teachers. It has also been found that there was a significant difference between pre-service and in-service teachers in factor 1 (t=-3.938, p=.000) and factor 4 (t=-3.121, p=.002) and in-service teachers are more genetic deterministic than pre-service teachers. Finally, different religions have no influence on teachers' conceptions of genetic determinism of human behaviors.

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Abiotic Stress Induced Epigenetic Modifications in Plants: How Much Do We Know?

Bej

Basak

2017

Plant Epigenetics

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Epigenetics and genetic determinism

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

Teachers' Conceptions about the Genetic Determinism of Human Behaviors

Abiotic Stress Induced Epigenetic Modifications in Plants: How Much Do We Know?

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