Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers in France observed that maternal inheritance of familial hypercholesterolemia was associated with ...

Researchers analyzed 4,400 cognitively unimpaired adults with amyloid imaging, finding increased amyloid in those who reported that their mothers had symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Increased ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable, and previous research suggests a preferential maternal inheritance of AD. New data confirm this hypothesis but also highlight the importance of ...

Maternal metabolism can program the metabolism of offspring. In particular, maternal obesity and/or diabetes during pregnancy results in offspring with an increased risk of metabolic dysfunction in ...

An epigenetic study at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences shows that in mouse egg cells, modifications to histone H2A at lysine 119 lay the groundwork for inherited DNA functional ...

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