Fetal Origins and Epigenetics

I was talking to a friend of mine recently (psychologist in profession) about my worries concerning donor eggs (baby's health, future behaviour, talents, etc) and about my belief (so far) that who we are is determined to an 80% by our genes (DNA) and he urged me to look at 'Fetal Origins' and Epigenetics researches.

There is a very interesting article in Time magazine about fetal origins I wanted to share with you:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2020815,00.html#ixzz10jhgk2rY

Also, have you read the NY Times article on the genome project? You can find it by searching the NY Times website for the article My genome, myself.
Within it, it discusses the most objectively inheritable trait: height. they have found the 12 (13?) genes more responsible for height and have also found that they predict 2% of the variance on height. TWO percent. That means that 98% of someone's height influenced by something other than these genes.
They are not arguing that it's environment that causes these traits, but inheritance may be much more complicated than just genes.

I just wanted to share this information because I found it really interesting. :)

[globetrot]

thanks!