Choices such as smoking or regular exercise have been suggested to lead to epigenetic changes that may be passed on from one cell to its daughter cells.<\/p>\n
Valerie Knopik, the Ben and Maxine Miller Professor and head of the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, is the lead author of a textbook, \u201cBehavioral Genetics,\u201d that explores epigenetics, among other topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[1885,1161,1884,240,1331],"class_list":["post-13838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development-and-family-studies","category-research","tag-behavioral-genetics","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-epigenetics","tag-purdue-university","tag-valerie-knopik"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n