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Multigenerational cohorts in patients with asthma and allergy.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Feb 2017
Arshad S Hasan, Karmaus Wilfried, Zhang Hongmei, Holloway John W
Abstract excerpt
Recent observations that disease risk can be transmitted across generations without the need for direct exposure of the child to the index environmental insult has sparked interest in transgenerational inheritance. Epigenetics describes processes that modify gene expression without a change in the nucleotide sequence. Epigenetic processes can be induced in response to environmental exposures, can influence...
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