Sentences with phrase «between epigenetic patterns»
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The patterns of a type of molecule that influences epigenetic inheritance, called small noncoding RNA, differed between the two groups, as did methylation patterns in the sperm DNA in the two groups, the team reports today in Cell Metabolism.
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The research team behind the study, which is being published in the journal Epigenetics, also found strong links between these altered epigenetic patterns and the activity in genes controlling improved metabolism and inflammation.
Our results show that trangenerational epigenetic effects play a role in adaptive evolution, and suggest that the relationship between changes in methylation patterns and differences in evolutionary outcomes, at least for quantitative traits such as cell division rates, is complex.