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Published online 24 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060522-13
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Mutant mice challenge rules of genetic inheritance
DNA's cousin, RNA, may also pass information down the generations.
In a discovery that rips up the rulebook of genetics, researchers in France have shown that RNA, rather than its more famous cousin DNA, might be able to ferry information from one generation of mice to the next.
DNA has long been credited with the job of passing traits from parent to child.
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