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Epigenomics

Methylation's mark on inheritance

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Epigenetic changes to the genome can have heritable effects. An epigenome-wide study of wild plants identifies shared patterns of such modifications and their associations with genetic information. See Article p.193

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  1. Steven Eichten is at the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.,

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  2. Justin Borevitz is in the Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.,

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Eichten, S., Borevitz, J. Methylation's mark on inheritance. Nature 495, 181–182 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11960

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