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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature - 19 Oct 2011
Greer Eric L, Maures Travis J, Ucar Duygu, Hauswirth Anna G, Mancini Elena, Lim Jana P, Benayoun Bérénice A, Shi Yang, Brunet Anne
Abstract excerpt
Chromatin modifiers regulate lifespan in several organisms, raising the question of whether changes in chromatin states in the parental generation could be incompletely reprogrammed in the next generation and thereby affect the lifespan of descendants. The histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4...
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