[azeotropic]

Everyone who wrote and authorized this press release ought to be fired. The paper offers no evidence of relevance to epigenetic inheritance, and has nothing to do with nature vs. nurture.

All that's going on here is that people in the Philipenes have differences in environmental exposures that affect gene expression in their immune system, and this, unsurprisingly, differs by SES. No evidence that any of these marks are more than temporary marks of current gene expression patterns let alone anything as shocking as passing through the germ line to the next generation.

[KenanSulayman]

> We did not find support for the hypothesis that low childhood SES would be associated with DNAm in young adulthood, independent of current SES. Prior research has reported sensitive periods of SES influence (Borghol et al., 2012; Lam et al., 2012), but our study is likely under-powered to test for this effect.