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Environmentally-Induced Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Implication of PIWI Interacting RNAs

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Environmentally-induced transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is an emerging field. The understanding of associated epigenetic mechanisms is currently in progress with open questions still remaining. In this review, we present an overview of the knowledge of environmentally-induced transgenerational inheritance and associated epigenetic mechanisms, mainly in animals. The second part focuses on the role of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), a class of small RNAs involved in the maintenance of the germline genome, in epigenetic memory to put into perspective cases of environmentally-induced transgenerational inheritance involving piRNA production. Finally, the last part addresses how genomes are facing production of new piRNAs, and from a broader perspective, how this process might have consequences on evolution and on sporadic disease development.
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hal-02344602 , version 1 (04-11-2019)

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Karine Casier, Antoine Boivin, Clément Carré, Laure Teysset. Environmentally-Induced Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Implication of PIWI Interacting RNAs. Cells, 2019, 8 (9), pp.1108. ⟨10.3390/cells8091108⟩. ⟨hal-02344602⟩
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