# Childhood Abuse, Complex Trauma and Epigenetics

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> **[Childhood Abuse, Complex Trauma and Epigenetics](https://psychcentral.com/lib/childhood-abuse-complex-trauma-and-epigenetics/)**
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> Epigenetics refers to the study of a natural phenomenon and to the phenomenon itself. Epigenetics is the study of the mechanisms that turn on and off the expression of our genes without altering the

  
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