Effects of Environmental Toxicants Reach Down Through Generations
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302101821.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302101821.htm
"A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring.
The animal's DNA sequence remains unchanged, but the compounds change the way genes turn on and off -- the epigenetic effect studied at length by WSU molecular biologist Michael Skinner and expanded on in the current issue of the online journal PLoS ONE."
