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Maternal obesity heritably perturbs offspring metabolism for three generations without serial programming.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Apr 2018
Eaton S A, Aiken A J, Young P E, Ho J W K, Cropley J E, Suter C M
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Maternal obesity can program offspring metabolism across multiple generations. It is not known whether multigenerational effects reflect true inheritance of the induced phenotype, or are due to serial propagation of the phenotype through repeated exposure to a compromised gestational milieu. Here we sought to distinguish these possibilities, using the Avy mouse model of maternal obesity. In this model, F1 sons of...
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