Sentences with phrase «epigenetic inheritance mechanisms»

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Many suspect these changes can pass on to offspring through sperm and eggs, a mechanism known as epigenetic inheritance.

«We are more than our DNA: Discovering a new mechanism of epigenetic inheritance.»

Since then, various reports suggested epigenetic inheritance in different organisms but the molecular mechanisms were unknown,» says Nicola Iovino, corresponding author in the new study.

Many researchers believe that these changes can be passed down through sperm and eggs — a mechanism known as epigenetic inheritance.

These methods, combined with quantitative, high - throughput, proteomic and genomic read - outs, will allow us to dissect the complex mechanisms governing chromatin dynamics, histone modifications and epigenetic inheritance.

While this concept of epigenetic germline inheritance has long been met with skepticism, evidence in support of this route of information transfer is now overwhelming, and some key mechanisms underlying germline transmission of acquired information are emerging.