Tweet 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.
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Tweet It is well understood that the diet and health status of mothers can affect offspring by epigenetic mechanisms (see this recent review for example). This is often called “fetal programming.” A recent study (published yesterday) suggests there may be a paternal influence as well- epigenetic programming on the offspring based on the health status [...]