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by Tenoke 1951 days ago
Most of those high-level epigenetics findings are on shaky ground.

Even if true that their children had higher rates of obesity this could easily be due to nurture - e.g. those Mothers could've been more likely to stock up on food at home and feed their children more due to the trauma, with the methylation explanation being post-hoc.