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  • Rewriting Heredity: Environment and the Genome

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    Originally broadcast: 2007
    Length: 50:52


  • Donata Vercelli on Asthma Genes and the Environment

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    Originally broadcast: 2007
    Producer: John Rieger
    Length: 14:06

    The DNA Files producer John Rieger talked with Dr. Donata Vercelli, Assistant Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center at the University of Arizona. Dr. Vercelli says that not only is asthma genetically complex, but that it also clearly shows evidence of genes that work differently based on the environment.