Tweet This recent paper in PLoS Genetics by Cheryl C. Y. Li and colleagues (from a group that did earlier work with the agouti mouse model) was really fascinating- they looked at changes in methylation variability in response to dietary supplementation of methyl donors across multiple generations of mice. Some very novel and important findings [...]
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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.
Tweet PGC-1alpha is my favorite gene/protein to study, as it is essential for mitochondrial regulation, influential on many diseases and ageing. I also am fascinated by the relatively new field of epigenetics and its relation to nutrition and health. So you can understand my geeky giddiness when I found that a study by Barrès et al. [...]