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delinka on July 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm

Is that "known to the scientific community" or "known anecdotally"?

The news here seems to be that there's now scientific confirmation of what was known anecdotally.

Xikkub on July 29, 2018 [–]

Epigenetics has been known about and studied for probably two decades at this point; as SimbaOnSteroids said, the real news here is the previously unknown role of the epididymis in changing the epigenetic cargo of sperm.

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