Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Vågerö, Denny, Pinger, Pia R., Aronsson, Vanda, van den Berg, Gerard J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2018
• Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Chemistry; Överkalix; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07617-9; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07617-9.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07617-9

Abstract Studies of animals and plants suggest that nutritional conditions in one generation may affect phenotypic characteristics in subsequent generations. A small number of human studies claim to show that pre-pubertal nutritional experience trigger a sex-specific transgenerational response along...