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Animal models of epigenetic inheritance.
Seminars in reproductive medicine - 1 Sept 2009
Bocock Philip N, Aagaard-Tillery Kjersti M
Abstract excerpt
Although genomic DNA is the template of our heredity, it is the coordination and regulation of its expression that results in the wide complexity and diversity seen among organisms. In recent years, an emerging body of evidence has focused on the role of epigenetics as one mechanism by which gene expression can be maintained and modulated throughout the lifetime of an individual. Epigenetics refers to heritable...
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