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A theoretical perspective on Waddington's genetic assimilation experiments.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Dec 2023

Raju Archishman, Xue BingKan, Leibler Stanislas

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Genetic assimilation is the process by which a phenotype that is initially induced by an environmental stimulus becomes stably inherited in the absence of the stimulus after a few generations of selection. While the concept has attracted much debate after being introduced by C. H. Waddington 70 y ago, there have been few experiments to quantitatively characterize the phenomenon. Here, we revisit and organize the...

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PMID: 38091287
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2309760120
PMCID: PMC10743363

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