Article
Germline epigenetic inheritance: Challenges and opportunities for linking human paternal experience with offspring biology and health
20 Mar 2020
Abstract excerpt
Recently, novel experimental approaches and molecular techniques have demonstrated that a male's experiences can be transmitted through his germline via epigenetic processes. These findings suggest that paternal exposures influence phenotypic variation in unexposed progeny-a proposal that runs counter to canonical ideas about inheritance developed during the 20th century. Nevertheless, support for paternal...
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