Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance
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Transgenerational Epigenetics
For this review of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance, it will be useful to provide some historical context. To that end, the initial experiments from the authors’ laboratory describing the phenomenon of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance will be outlined, and issues related to investigations in this field will be discussed using these studies as an example.1 Historically, the autho...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-5-306