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To address this problem, we designed our study specifically to maximize a lineage-matched, environmentally aligned cross-study comparability with the foundational work of Cortijo et al. by using seeds derived from the same epiRIL generation and grown under broadly similar environmental conditions. We mapped flowering time, as well as five non-flowering traits that had not previously been mapped in this epiRIL population: rosette diameter, basal branch number, lateral branch number, fruit number, and rosette leaf number. We detected significant epiQTLs for all traits except lateral branch number. We also reproduced a facsimile of the original computational pipeline. This design provides an approximate upper bound on expected reproducibility before additional generations of methylation resetting or divergence among seed stocks could substantially influence the results. 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