Journal
EPIGENETICS
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 838-842Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/epi.6.7.16537
Keywords
epigenetic; transgenerational; inheritance; mitotic; environmental; toxicants; evolution; disease etiology
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The majority of environmental factors can not modify DNA sequence, but can influence the epigenome. The mitotic stability of the epigenome and ability of environmental epigenetics to influence phenotypic variation and disease, suggests environmental epigenetics will have a critical role in disease etiology and biological areas such as evolutionary biology. The current review presents the molecular basis of how environment can promote stable epigenomes and modified phenotypes, and distinguishes the difference between epigenetic transgenerational inheritance through the germ line versus somatic cell mitotic stability.
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