Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

ID: transgenerational-epigenetic-inheritance

Transmission of an epigenetic effect beyond directly exposed generations, after excluding alternative explanations such as sequence change and parental provisioning.
They are actually inheritable! But alleles are rare: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559844
Figure 1.
To rats with the same genome differing only in DNA methylation with a different tail phenotype.
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