Euphenics, which literally means `good appearance` or `normal appearing`, is the science of making phenotypic improvements to humans after birth, generally to affect a problematic genetic condition. In the early 1960s, Joshua Lederberg invented the term euphenics to differentiate the practice from eugenics, which was widely unpopular at the ti...
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Literally meaning normal appearing, euphenics aims to improve the outcome of a genetic disease by altering the environment. An illustration: people with PKU (phenylketonuria) can avoid the expression of their disease by staying on a low-phenylalanine diet (and avoiding major souces of phenylalanine such as diet soft drinks sweetened with aspartame ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: yū-fē′niks Definitions: 1. Modification of the internal or external environment of an individual so as to prevent or modify the phenotypic expression of a genetic defect, without changing the genotype or the inheritance.
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Euphenics: Literally meaning 'normal appearing,' euphenics aims to improve the outcome of a genetic disease by altering the environment. An illustration: children born with the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU) can avoid the expression of their disease by staying on a low-phenylalanine diet and avoiding major sources of phenylalanine such as di...
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