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How chronic stress is harming our DNA. Elissa Epel is studying how personality, stress processes and environment affect our DNA â and how we might lessen damaging effects. Money problems, a heavy work load, caregiving â such increasingly common pressures have helped make stress a part of modern American life.
For example, there is now emerging evidence that the modification state and sequence of DNA can affect the methylation states on accompanying histones in chromatin, while the histone lysine methylation state of chromatin can in turn influence modification of the DNA itself.