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> >Maybe James was talking about something else.  I think this study is
> epigenetics.
> 

Yes, something else.  Just the effects of epigenetic changes is enough to 
throw the "It's in my genes" crutch out the window.  But I am indeed talking 
about changes in the DNA sequencing itself:  for example:



“When we started this study, people were expecting that only epigenetics 
would differ greatly between twins,” said Jan Dumanski, a professor of 
genetics at 
the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an author of the study. “But what 
we found are changes on the genetic level, the DNA sequence itself.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/11real.html