The latest edition of Community Paediatric Review is now available. This edition is on epigenetics, with a secondary article on oral health.

“ The environment has a significant impact on shaping our development and our outcomes (our phenotype) – determining how long we will live, how healthy we will be and how we perform. In the past we used to think of this as a nature-nurture, gene-environment effect: the environment acted upon the underlying genetics to shape outcomes. More recently we are refocusing our thinking around the reverse: an environment-gene effect – the environment shapes the genome. This interplay between the genome and the environment is known as epigenetics. …” Read more – Volume 19, No 3 – December 2011

To read the latest edition, download fact sheets and find archived editions, go to the Community Paediatric Review page.