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March 2015

Mothers Can Pass Traits to Offspring Through Bacteria’s DNA

A new study in mice by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis has shown that the DNA of bacteria that live in the body can pass a trait to offspring in a way similar to the parents’ own DNA. According to the authors, the discovery means scientists need to consider a significant new factor, the DNA of microbes passed from mother to child, in their efforts to understand how genes influence illness and health.

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Publications

• Pooled Sequencing of 531 Genes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Identifies an Associated Rare Variant in BTNL2 and Implicates Other Immune Related Genes
• Association of Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Variants With Breast Cancer Survival Among Chinese Women
• Characterisation of One Sheep Border Disease Virus in China

News

• Genomic Profiling for Cancer of Unknown Primary Site
• Order Matters: Sequence of Genetic Mutations Determines How Cancer Behaves
• Cerebral Palsy: It Can Be in Your Genes
• Sea Slug has Taken Genes From the Algae it Eats, Allowing it to Photosynthesise Like a Plant, Study Reports

Blogs

• Brain Mosaicism and Altered Gene Copy Numbers Could Explain Alzheimer’s
• 100,000 Studies: A Milestone for Human Genome Epidemiology (HuGE) and the HuGE Navigator

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