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Apr 13, 2012

A new study in PNAS on rhesus macaques shows that a change in their social status leads to epigenetic changes that affect their health, reports Nature News' Zoë Corbyn. A Duke University team studied 49 captive female rhesus macaques all originally with a medium social rank, and then divided them into groups where their ranks changed.

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