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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.
The behavior of a person's genes doesn't just depend on the genes' DNA sequence - it's also affected by so-called epigenetic factors. Changes in these factors can play a critical role in disease. The external environment's effects upon genes can influence disease, and some of these effects can be inherited in humans.