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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

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Transmission of an epigenetic effect beyond directly exposed generations, after excluding alternative explanations such as sequence change and parental provisioning.

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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance by Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16
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They are actually inheritable! But alleles are rare: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559844
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To rats with the same genome differing only in DNA methylation with a different tail phenotype.
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