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The article sins the father by Virginia Hughes is an epigenetic paper reporting the experiments carried out by Dr. Dias and Dr. Ressler of the University of Atlanta. The two doctors have studied the involvement of imprints in the process of inheritance in mice based on fear and the reaction associated to acetophenone. The doctors find a large than normal expression of M71 glomeruli receptors in the mice’s offspring’s noses. The amazing elegant but inconclusive cause effect approach bring a possible kind of an explanation to the controversial observation by the doctors and the scientific society to the finding of the 19th century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamark that hinted to the possibilities of passing on inherited traits to future generations. Since the time of the French biologist scientists have observed with a keen interest the same phenomenon manifest itself in other living forms such plants, animals and humans too.
The theory about transmittance method, for which no body denies is an extremely controversial one. An aggressive suggestion to explain this hereditary transmission of environmental factors as contained in the article sins of the father is caused by epigenetics. Epigenetic is a concept introduced in the 2000s where some changes occasioned by the way the DNA is packed is one such big proponents of this thought, where chemical tags called methylation on the can turn genes on and off.
On more critical grounds as presented the article sin of the father even if epigenetic could somehow be involved in inheritance, through marks on the sperm, the first and most obvious question would be to understand how the effects of the environment get embedded into an animal’s germ cells from what is discussed in the article sins of the father epigenetics is unable to explain in detail and vivid illustration how this observed phenomenon is actually passed down through the descendent generations surviving many rounds of genetic reprogramming.
Scientists though are optimistic about finding a cause effect relationship in the years ahead.