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Epigenetics and parental effects.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Sept 2010
Kappeler Laurent, Meaney Michael J
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Parental effects are a major source of phenotypic plasticity and may influence offspring phenotype in concert with environmental demands. Studies of "environmental epigenetics" suggest that (1) DNA methylation states are variable and that both demethylation and remethylation occur in post-mitotic cells, and (2) that remodeling of DNA methylation can occur in response to environmentally driven intracellular...
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