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by innguest 3984 days ago
You seem to be asking whether epigenetic traits are inheritable. It will take a while for the scientific community to fully accept this since it smells of Lamarckism, but if we do not accept transgenerational epigenetic transmission it gets really hard to explain things like this: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/01/mice-inhe...
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Yes, there has been some recent studies that suggest the Central Dogma [1] may not apply in all cases. If I remember correctly, some forms of DNA methylation is heritable on the male side. Disclaimer: not a molecular biologist.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_bio...