Epigene is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 64 anagrams from letters in epigene (eeeginp).
1815-25; French épigène Greek epigenḗs born after, growing after. See epi-, -gen
But it is only a depraved taste that can prefer such an epigene to the fresh desert-music of Imr-al-Kais.