Consequences of Paternal Nutrition on Offspring Health and Disease

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It is well established that the maternal diet during the periconceptional period affects the progeny's health. A growing body of evidence suggests that the paternal diet also influences disease onset in offspring. For many years, sperm was considered only to contribute half of the progeny's genome. It now appears that it also plays a crucial role in health and disease in offspring's adult life. The nutritional...

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