By Alice Klein
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Drinking coffee may change how some of our genes are expressed, which could help explain its numerous health benefits.
Studies suggest that people who drink coffee are less likely to get certain illnesses, such as heart disease, but we don’t know why.
To learn more, Mohsen Ghanbari at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and his colleagues looked at whether coffee consumption is associated with the presence of certain epigenetic markers – chemical tags on DNA – that increase or decrease the …
