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Roll over Weismann: extracellular vesicles in the transgenerational transmission of environmental effects.
Epigenomics - 1 Oct 2015
Eaton Sally A, Jayasooriah Navind, Buckland Michael E, Martin David Ik, Cropley Jennifer E, Suter Catherine M
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The ability of environmental exposures to induce phenotypic change across multiple generations of offspring has gathered an enormous amount of interest in recent years. There are by now many examples of nongenetic transgenerational effects of environmental exposures, covering a broad range of stressors. Available evidence indicates that epigenetic inheritance may mediate at least some of these transgenerational...
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