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You are affected by what your parents eat: Diet, epigenetics, transgeneration and intergeneration
2020-06-01
Abstract excerpt
In contrast with genetics, epigenetics does not alter the DNA sequence. It was a widely held thought that although the epigenome undergoes a process of reprogramming during gametogenesis and early embryo development, resulting epigenetic information could not be inherited by subsequent generations. There are growing pieces of evidence, recently, indicating that parentally acquired traits due to exposure to externa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7b735d8c-3f11-5caf-87a9-3b340d14fa7f
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tifs.2020.04.021
