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Histone Modifications: Epigenetic Mediators of Environmental Exposure Memory

Jan 7, 2019
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How organisms retain a memory of ancestral environmental exposure is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. Recently published work by our group and others, regarding environmentally induced transgenerational effects, have identified an array of mechanisms, with a particular focus on histone modifications, that shed some light on the underlying epigenetic processes driving long-term generational effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6233965/

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P.k Kunju
2 hours ago

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xiao jingyao
xiao jingyao
a day ago

Strong piece on how environmental exposure leaves a mark beyond the genome. The visualization of how epigenetic mediators carry memory is fascinating - making the abstract concrete is half the work. I have been working on reference-led video explainers, and Reference to Video

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Shandran Mummert
5 days ago

The post’s reference to Crenshaw’s 1991 Mapping the Margins and Lorde’s warning about women having to pluck out one aspect of themselves stands out as a clear way to show why feminist economics needs intersectional analysis. While thinking about fragmented identity and power, I ended up looking up the coffin of andy and leyley free, which treats those themes in a very different register. The article’s insistence that women’s patriarchal oppression cannot be universalized feels like a necessary corrective for any political demand that claims to speak for all women.

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goudan fu
goudan fu
6 days ago

It’s striking that histone modifications, rather than DNA sequence changes alone, seem to carry so much of that transgenerational memory. My grandmother’s stories about wartime hunger always made me wonder if some of that stress could echo biologically; reading about histone marks linked to environmental exposure makes that idea feel less abstract. I’d be curious whether these marks stay stable across multiple generations or fade after a few. The review’s focus on long-term generational effects really makes me rethink inheritance.

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crimsonobjective
6 days ago

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