Ancestral perinatal obesogen exposure results in a transgenerational thrifty phenotype in mice

Early life exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals has been linked to increased adiposity during adulthood. Here Chamorro-García et al. show that ancestral exposure to the obesogen tributyltin causes obesity in untreated F4 generation male descendants by inducing heritable changes in genome archi...

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Main Authors: Raquel Chamorro-Garcia, Carlos Diaz-Castillo, Bassem M. Shoucri, Heidi Käch, Ron Leavitt, Toshi Shioda, Bruce Blumberg
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6a3e216884f74baab7cacd84d2bea3cf
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