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Transgenerational Inheritance of Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Alterations during Mammalian Development.
Cells - 3 Dec 2019
Legoff Louis, D'Cruz Shereen Cynthia, Tevosian Sergei, Primig Michael, Smagulova Fatima
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Genetic studies traditionally focus on DNA as the molecule that passes information on from parents to their offspring. Changes in the DNA code alter heritable information and can more or less severely affect the progeny's phenotype. While the idea that information can be inherited between generations independently of the DNA's nucleotide sequence is not new, the outcome of recent studies provides a mechanistic...
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