Behavioural traits propagate across generations via segregated iterative-somatic and gametic epigenetic mechanisms

Physiological effects of psychological stress and infection in mothers can increase the incidence of anxiety and psychiatric diseases in offsprings and in subsequent generation. Here, Miklos Toth and colleagues show that intergenerational inheritance of neurological traits is propagated across multi...

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Main Authors: Emma Mitchell, Shifra L. Klein, Kimon V. Argyropoulos, Ali Sharma, Robin B. Chan, Judit Gal Toth, Luendreo Barboza, Charlotte Bavley, Analia Bortolozzi, Qiuying Chen, Bingfang Liu, Joanne Ingenito, Willie Mark, Jarrod Dudakov, Steven Gross, Gilbert Di Paolo, Francesc Artigas, Marcel van den Brink, Miklos Toth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11492