Can Stress Be Inherited? Follow-Up Research on Second and Third Generations of Holocaust Survivors Published

An international team of scientists, led by Czech neuroscientist, Professor Ivan Rektor from CEITEC Masaryk University, recently confirmed that the elevated mitochondrial DNA copy number is not inherited by the second and the third generations of Holocaust survivors. Professor Rektor, who is internationally recognised for his brain research on Holocaust survivors, in collaboration with his colleagues from the Cambridge-based Sanger Institute, studied Holocaust survivors and two generations of their offspring and compered them with age-matched controls without extreme stress in their personal or family history. Their findings were recently published in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Genetics.

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