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Evidence for transgenerational transmission of epigenetic tumor susceptibility in Drosophila.
PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2007
Xing Yalan, Shi Song, Le Long, Lee Crystal A, Silver-Morse Louise, Li Willis X
Abstract excerpt
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance results from incomplete erasure of parental epigenetic marks during epigenetic reprogramming at fertilization. The significance of this phenomenon, and the mechanism by which it occurs, remains obscure. Here, we show that genetic mutations in Drosophila may cause epigenetic alterations that, when inherited, influence tumor susceptibility of the offspring. We found that...
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