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Toxin exposure during pregnancy looks like it can cause abnormality-inducing epigenetic effects across generations — a study in rats 0

Citation Mohan Manikkam, Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, Rebecca Tracey, Md. M. Haque, and Michael K. Skinner, Transgenerational Actions of Environmental Compounds on Reproductive Disease and Identification of Epigenetic Biomarkers of Ancestral Exposures, PLoS ONE 7(2), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031901 (28 February 2012) Explaining what this team discovered — but first, an explanation of basic epigenetic terminology Epigenetic factors biochemically influence [...]