Endocrine Abstracts

Non-genetic inheritance allows the environmental history of an individual to influence the next generation. This form of inheritance is well documented in worms, fruit-flies and plants. Observational evidence in mammals suggests two forms of non-genetic transgenerational effects; ‘developmental programming’ in response to early life exposures and germ-line transmission of an environmentally induced change i.e. ‘epigenetic inheritance’. However, at present t...