Rachel Yehuda is an amazing neuroscientist and epigeneticist, I really look up to her work as a scientist.
As a Palestinian, I would like to know the epigenetic effects on Palestinian people due to being the longest occupied group of people in modern time, the suffering must have similar effects on the Palestinian population, her studies always get me to thinking about this. Palestinians are one of the most depressed populations in the world (http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001547#s4) and I have seen rates of depression for Palestinian people from 40 to 92 percent in poles. (not citing because I do not know the true value and could not find it). I hate to divert from the effect of the holocaust in this article, but surviving family members from the holocaust and survivors of the occupation of Palestine are both relatively small and easy to study groups.
since the politics of the region are shitty, hopefully researchers- and maybe even Rachel Yehuda will do a study on Palestinians. And this will be an unbiased and human way to help end conflict. We are all people we all suffer the same way, our genes and our bodies functions are universal. The effect of trauma on populations has been shown time and time again through studies like Yehuda's (her lab's work is pioneering the field).
Sorry about my rant, but Palestinians and Holocaust survivors, as well as every other group of people that have suffered trauma at the hands of oppressors and murderers have the same epigenetic issues. Once people realize that humans are all biologically the same and that we must take care of each other for our future's sake (our future generations to be exact). Thanks for reading, I am not a troll for the Palestinian cause (most of the time haha). But I love Rachel Yehudas work and can not stress how important it is, just ranting about how the Palestinian people are most likely similarly affected, and how we should work together to bring peace, safety, and to protect all humans from genocide and oppression.