Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

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epigenetics: genetic control by factors other than an individual’s DNA sequence

epigenetic inheritance: transmittance of information from one generation of an organism to the next that affects the traits of offspring without altering the DNA sequence
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References:

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Jones S.V., Choi D.C., Davis M., Ressler K.J. (2008) Learning-dependent structural plasticity in the adult olfactory pathway. Journal of Neuroscience 28: 13106–13111. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/49/13106.full.pdf

Kaati G., Bygren L.D., Edvinsson S. (2002) Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined by nutrition during parents’ and grandparents’ slow growth period. European Journal of Human Genetics 10: 682 – 688. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12404098

Morgan H.D., Sutherland H.G., Martin D.I., Whitelaw E. (1999) Epigenetic inheritance at the agouti locus in the mouse. Nature Genetics 23(3): 314-318. http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v23/n3/full/ng1199_314.html

Pembrey, M. (2002). Time to take epigenetic inheritance seriously. European Journal of Human Genetics 10: 669 – 671. https://moodle.unitec.ac.nz/pluginfile.php/426038/mod_resource/content/0/Epigenetics%20food%20and%20generations.pdf