A low-protein paternal diet alters hepatic gene expressions in progeny
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Back in October I blogged about a recent paper by Ng et al. suggesting evidence for paternal programming of genes passed to offspring. Overall, the study wasn't very convincing (in my humble opinion).
But recently Carone et al. give some more evidence that the paternal diet influences the offspring, independent of the maternal diet.
Male mice were raised on a control diet with 20% protein, or a "low-protein" diet of 11% protein and the 9% made up with sucrose. Importantly, the authors noted Read more [...]