Inherited epigenetic variation — revisiting soft inheritance

By Eric J. Richards. Nature reviews genetics, 2006

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Epigenetics as a unifying principle in the aetiology of complex traits and diseases (2010, background): “Epigenetic solutions There is already fragmentary experimental evidence that epigenetics can account for some of the variation that had previously been attributed to environmental and heritable effect”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “Some of the epigenetic alterations that occur during the later stages of embryonic development appear to be mitotically and meiotically heritable (Richards, 2006).”
Non-genetic inheritance and changing environments (2013, background): “DNA methylation is the most common, but certainly not the only, method of transgenerational information transfer [39]; others include chromatin states, histone modification, and prions [40].”
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “In a different plane, the numerous phenomena of epigenetic inheritance, such as those involving RNAi (see earlier), as well as the better-studied ones based on heritable DNA methylation patterns, are important mechanisms of evolution (Johnson and Tricker, 2010; Richards, 2006).”
Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution (2011, background): “However, phenotypic variation may also result from changes in DNA expressio”
Gene Pyramiding for Sustainable Crop Improvement against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses (2020, background): “Thus, pyramiding of several genes or QTLs is endorsed as a possible approach to improve quantitative as well as qualitative traits in plants [72,85,139].”
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Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. (2009, background): “This allows them to have long-term (and potentially crossgenerational) influences (Richards 2006).”
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: myths and mechanisms (2014, neutral): “Epigenetic mechanisms, modulated by environmental cues, have been proposed to enable ‘‘soft inheritance,’’ permitting adaptation to fluctuating environments and nutrition (Richards, 2006).”
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (2009, background): “Perhaps most remarkably, a changing environment has been shown to trigger epigenetic effects that can be transmitted across generations, in species as diverse as yeast and humans (Rakyan and Beck, 2006; Richards, 2006; Whitelaw and Whitelaw, 2006).”
Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior: An Update and Frequently Asked Questions (2010, positive): “The process of genetic suppression is generally the outcomeofDNAmethylation or histone acetylation, both molecular mechanisms that mediate these phenomena (Jaenisch and Bird, 2003; Jones and Takai, 2001; Richards, 2006).”
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Implications for the Study of Heredity and Evolution (2009, positive): “The fidelity of transmission in cell lineages ranges from about 1% variation per cell generation up to the very high fidelity of 10-6 variations per cell generation (Genereux et al. 2005; Richards 2006).”