Epigenetic Poverty, Coloniality and Intervention Bioethics in Latin America

César Koppe Grisólia ,Volnei Garrafa

doi:10.34257/gjhssavol20is10pg65

Abstract

Numerous studies have documented a relationship between changes in gene expression and biosocial factors. For example, Nr3c1, Ppara, and IGF2 expression alter as a result of poverty-induced biosocial pressures. Such epigenetic changes have already been identified in children born into poor households and children born to malnourished mothers. This study presents an ethical discussion of poverty in Latin America caused by social exclusion and economic exploitation of natural resources by developed countries. Intervention bioethics (IB), a critical purpose for new epistemological territorialism, was developed in Latin America and is based mainly on coloniality studies. This persistent situation exemplifies the relationship of oppression and dependence of peripheral countries on central countries. The inherent social inequality results in perpetual poverty, which in turn leaves epigenetic marks in the genome. We discuss how lower socioeconomic status can cause changes in the DNAmethylation pattern. Intervention bioethics advocates that the State must be more effective in making decisions in favor of excluded populations, thus establishing minimum income policies. In Latin America, the majority of the population is poor.

Highlights

Nr3c1, Ppara, and IGF2 expression alter as a result of poverty-induced biosocial pressures
In Latin America, the majority of the population is we propose a discussion of how biological mechanisms poor
Several studies have reported a correlation between age and DNA methylation, with elderly individuals having significantly more DNA methylation than young people (Hannum et al, 2013)

Summary

What is the ethical responsibility of the State in

The establishment of public policies defining the governance of an entire generation of individuals minimum income programs to eradicate hunger and with epigenetic marks resulting from extreme poverty malnutrition must first enter the ethical conscience of the which can be passed down for generations? Especially State before being made mandatory by law. Different identities are established through the creation of otherness that can and, to a large extent, involves the subordination, violation, and oppression of the inferior party (Quijano, 1992) In this line of reflection, coloniality would be this form of exercising power based on an idea of development in which more powerful countries impose economic, political and moral standards on other people(s) to establish a mechanism for poverty to consider bioethics and social sciences as the expansion of developed nation-states and for theoretical references for understanding the complexity the creation of another “more developed” identity.

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Methylation Age Acceleration Across the Life