NOVA did a show on epigenetics a while back, and they talk about
brown/yellow mice too:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

Fascinating stuff!

Shannon

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Sarah <sarah@...> wrote:
> that was a very VERY interesting article when i found it, anyone else
> have trouble with the link? i replaced the 2019 with an apostrophe
> which took me to the website where i used their site's search tool to
> find the title of the article.
> i also found, extremely EXTREEEEEMEELY interesting to me as i am
> planning to have another baby next year, the following:
> http://discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/cover/?searchterm=DNA%20destiny
> which is an article called DNA is not destiny and also mentions the
> methyl-whatsit to do with the DNA switches. very well worth the read
> and very encouraging to me personally as my efforts (like many women
> i know) go against my husband's 'beliefs' in all this 'stuff'.