News tagged with inheritance

Epigenetic reprogramming: Research discovers how epigenetic information could be inherited

New research reveals a potential way for how parents' experiences could be passed to their offspring's genes. The research was published today, 25 January, in the journal Science.

Genetics Jan 24, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 4 |

Plastic products and jet fuel exposures raising incidences of 'epigenetic transgenerational inheritance'

Washington State University researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring.

Genetics Jan 24, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Gene mutations in fruit flies help shed light on inherited intellectual disability in humans

Clumsy fruit flies with poor posture are helping an international team of scientists understand inherited intellectual disability in humans – and vice versa.

Genetics Jul 04, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Medical genetics team pinpoints causes of inherited diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- A child’s diagnosis with a congenital deformity or developmental delay raises challenging questions: Could the problem be inherited? What’s the prognosis? If other children are born to the same ...

Genetics Jan 09, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

How mitochondrial DNA defects cause inherited deafness

(Medical Xpress) -- Yale scientists have discovered the molecular pathway by which maternally inherited deafness appears to occur: Mitochondrial DNA mutations trigger a signaling cascade, resulting in programmed ...

Medical research Feb 17, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

The influence of the mother: Maternal epigenetic inheritance

(Medical Xpress) -- A study published in Genes and Development from scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research pinpoints the importance of maternal epigenetic influences during ...

Genetics May 07, 2012 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time.

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