Once deemed heretical, emerging evidence now supports the notion that the inheritance of
acquired characteristics can occur through ancestral exposures or experiences and that …

Research efforts during the past decades have provided intriguing evidence suggesting that
stressful experiences during pregnancy exert long-term consequences on the future mental …

In conjunction with histone modifications, DNA methylation plays critical roles in gene
silencing through chromatin remodeling. Changes in DNA methylation perturb neuronal …

The function of plant genomes depends on chromatin marks such as the methylation of DNA
and the post-translational modification of histones. Techniques for studying model plants …

Paramutation is a heritable epigenetic modification induced in plants by cross-talk between
allelic loci. Here we report a similar modification of the mouse Kit gene in the progeny of …

The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …

Objective—Sclerostin (SOST) has been identified as an important regulator of bone
formation; however, it has not been previously implicated in arterial disease. The aim of this …

Imprinted genes play important roles in development, and most are clustered in large
domains. Their allelic repression is regulated by 'imprinting control regions'(ICRs), which are …

Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have long been known to play vital roles in eukaryotic gene
regulation. Studies conducted over a decade ago revealed that maturation of spliced …

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