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Journal article
Environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease
Environmental epigenetics, Vol.4(2), pp.dvy016-dvy016
04/2018
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110403
PMCID: PMC6051467
PMID: 30038800
Abstract
Ancestral environmental exposures such as toxicants, abnormal nutrition or stress can promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease and phenotypic variation. These environmental factors induce the epigenetic reprogramming of the germline (sperm and egg). The germline epimutations can in turn increase disease susceptibility of subsequent generations of the exposed ancestors. A variety of environmental factors, species and exposure specificity of this induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease is discussed with a consideration of generational toxicology. The molecular mechanisms and processes involved in the ability of these inherited epimutations to increase disease susceptibility are discussed. In addition to altered disease susceptibility, the potential impact of the epigenetic inheritance on phenotypic variation and evolution is considered. Observations suggest environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease is a critical aspect of disease etiology, toxicology and evolution that needs to be considered.
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- Title
- Environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease
- Creators
- Eric E Nilsson - Center for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USAIngrid Sadler-Riggleman - Center for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USAMichael K Skinner - Center for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
- Publication Details
- Environmental epigenetics, Vol.4(2), pp.dvy016-dvy016
- Academic Unit
- Biological Sciences, School of
- Publisher
- England
- Identifiers
- 99900547279301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article