New work reports that both derepressed and hyper-repressed chromatin states in animals can be transmitted to progeny for many generations. Transmission depends on genomic architecture and histone modifications.
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Pirrotta, V. Of giraffes' necks and the inheritance of chromatin states. Nat Genet 49, 821–823 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3881
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