Various researches suggest that the environment influences how the gene works. A nice analogy is the one reported in the article Big Question: Can your environment change your DNA? of the Duke Magazine staff, where genes are like computer hardware and environment is like a software program that can regulate and change what the computer hardware does.

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References

• The Telomere Effect | 2020 | Elizabeth Blackburn, Elissa Epel