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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Överkalix; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290014/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538239; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07617-9

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 the male...