EP 44 · 5:23

Why epigenetics matters for disease and inheritance

From New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics)

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5:26That's something that happens to do with epigenetics. And sometimes the same gene variant can be benign in one person. If you do the genetic sequencing of two individuals, they'll have the same gene variant, but one individual will get the disease and the other one won't. Again, that has to do with the software on top. So, this paper marks like a major shift in how we think about epigenetic inheritance, especially in mammals. And it shows that this is not actually an exception. That's the big part. Okay?

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  1. EP 44

    New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics)

    A new mouse genetics paper suggests that non-Mendelian epigenetic inheritance may be more common in mammals than previously thought.

    New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics)

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