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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01944-z |