But, in this case, the epigenetic modification could be inherited from either the mother or the father.
Muscle diseases weaken and waste muscles and can be inherited or acquired and affect people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities.
But last year Emma Whitelaw, a biochemist at the University of Sydney, demonstrated that epigenetic traits could be inherited in mice.
Lord Lucas, a hereditary peer whose title is one of the few that can be inherited by woman, thinks he has the answer - An "opt-in" system.
The purchasee already has low marks, which will be inherited by the purchaser, in addition to which the ratings agencies are likely to downgrade the new entity and trigger other negative events.
And then, if those people survive while others days off, people with a penchant for drinking all that did produce, and as we all know, a penchant for alcohol can be inherited.
It seems to be important in some sorts of cancer, and there is also evidence that regulation by methylation can be passed from parent to offspring, meaning that characteristics acquired by one generation may be inherited by the next.
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This might be because some genetic disabilities are more likely to be inherited by males, although it could also be that the symptoms of ADHD and other disabilities are more obvious in boys, and are therefore more likely to be diagnosed, the study notes.
In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
One benefit of thriving is to move from the class in which poverty was an inherited trait to the class in which wealth would be an inherited trait.
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More precisely, the inherited 401(k) can be converted into an inherited IRA and enjoy the stretch-out capability of the latter.
The researchers, led by Helen Hunt of the University of Greenwich, say there may be some genetic reason why women with overweight mothers gain weight, but it may also be due to inherited lifestyles.
Sadly for Labour, this is an experimental proposition that cannot be tested: Mr Cameron inherited coffers that are empty, not full.
One problem that remains is deciding who pays the estate taxes on an inherited IRA. If you write your will wrong, your second wife, say, could be forced to pay tax on the IRA inherited by your children with your first wife.
That means environmentally induced effects that are translated into action by this sort of epigenesis might be being confused by researchers with inherited ones.
This ancient legal right is deemed by scholars to be the single most important right inherited from the ancient Anglo-Saxon legal system and incorporated into the Constitution.
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Each year, the required distributions from the Roth, divided into separate inherited accounts, would be calculated based on each grandchild's age and would go into his or her individual trust.
The lessons and the legacy of the AME Church are part of our story as Americans, and as citizens, we have inherited the responsibility to be active and engaged in our democracy.
Dr Whitelaw's work is one part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that understanding inherited epigenetic features may be necessary to work out how animals pass on physical characteristics or susceptibility to disease.
Given that tall men have more children, and that height is, at least in part, inherited, it might be expected that men would prefer tall women because they would produce tall (and so sexually successful) sons.
In 1977, Brace published an article that put the age of the Western overbite at no more than two hundred and fifty years which is to say that flatware and, with it, a significant change in how we chewed were all it took for the edge-to-edge occlusion that we inherited from the Neanderthals to be replaced by the bite we now call normal.
The rail structure he inherited means that this choice cannot be delayed much longer.
With the inherited IRA, the account must be distributed over your single life expectancy, with no opportunity to stretch beyond that timeline.
In the far future, it may be possible to prevent genetic diseases from being inherited by cutting them out of the gene pool once and for all, so-called germline engineering.
The position of seneschal will continue to be appointed by the seigneur, which is an inherited title.
Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot.
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An illustration earlier this year was the delay in FDA approval of a biological used to treat Pompe disease--a debilitating inherited disorder--that was to be manufactured in a new, larger-scale manufacturing facility.
When the IRA is inherited by the beneficiary, it must not be rolled over or moved to another institution.
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