Uncertain Inheritance: Transgenerational Effects of Environmental Exposures
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Environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of phenotype and disease.
Environmental epigenetics has an important role in regulating phenotype formation or disease etiology. The ability of environmental factors and exposures early in life to alter somatic cell epigenomes and subsequent development is a critical factor in how environment affects biology. Environmental epigenetics provides a molecular mechanism to explain long term effects of environment on the deve...
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