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Progressive, transgenerational changes in offspring phenotype and epigenotype following nutritional transition.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Burdge Graham C, Hoile Samuel P, Uller Tobias, Thomas Nicola A, Gluckman Peter D, Hanson Mark A, Lillycrop Karen A
Abstract excerpt
Induction of altered phenotypes during development in response to environmental input involves epigenetic changes. Phenotypic traits can be passed between generations by a variety of mechanisms, including direct transmission of epigenetic states or by induction of epigenetic marks de novo in each generation. To distinguish between these possibilities we measured epigenetic marks over four generations in rats...
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