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Traces of Trauma in Sperm RNA

By: Jeffrey M. Perkel
The Scientist
April 13, 2014

The offspring of mice that suffered early-life stress show signs of the disturbance their parent experienced, researchers from the University of Zurich and their colleagues have found, pointing to a potential RNA-based mechanism by which trauma may be epigenetically inherited. The team’s work was published in Nature Neuroscience.

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