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Tertiary Epimutations - A Novel Aspect of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance Promoting Genome Instability.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
McCarrey John R, Lehle Jake D, Raju Seetha S, Wang Yufeng, Nilsson Eric E, Skinner Michael K
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to environmental factors can induce the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease. Alterations to the epigenome termed "epimutations" include "primary epimutations" which are epigenetic alterations in the absence of genetic change and "secondary epimutations" which form following an initial genetic change. To determine if secondary epimutations contribute to transgenerational transmission of...
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