SMRTR Science & EngineeringJun 1, 2026Science Daily

Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics

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A federally funded study in *Nature Genetics* found that ~7% of inherited epigenetic patterns in mice break Mendel's Laws, including the first mammalian observation of paramutation, where methylation on one gene triggers changes in another.

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