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CHAPTER 1 Acknowledgments We thank Dr. Axel Schumacher for his help with drawing figures for this article. This research has been supported by the Special Initiative grant from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and also by NARSAD, the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, the Stanley Foundation, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada to A.P. The Epigenetic Perspective was originally published as “Phenotypic Differences in Genetically Identical Organisms: the Epigenetic Perspective” in Human Molecular Genetics 2004, 14 (supp. 1): R11-R18. Used with permission from Oxford University Press.