{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5c75694eed0b7c9b736851c2/6aba33c1c08faa13366a4515?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Gene research with Understanding Society","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5c75694eed0b7c9b736851c2/1790587830618-ffe16c6a-e634-452d-939c-e16ea96a57fa.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In the first of our new season of podcasts, we’re looking at research using Understanding Society’s biological data which examined how some genes work differently in different people. Our guests are <a href=\"https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/SCHAL18107/Leonard-Schalkwyk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Schalkwyk</a>, an emeritus professor in <a href=\"https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/life-sciences\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the School of Life Sciences at the University of Essex</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/all-staff/profiles/radu-zabet.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Radu Zabet</a>, a <a href=\"https://www.qmul.ac.uk/epigenetics/about-us/zabet/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reader in AI and Cancer Epigenetics at Queen Mary University of London</a>. They’re discussing a paper they wrote with <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/agenomicsphd/channel/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Grant</a> and <a href=\"https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/people/mkumari\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Meena Kumari</a>: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-026-04021-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Systematic investigation of interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood</a>.</p>","author_name":"Understanding Society"}