Epigenetic Mechanisms of Paternal Stress in Offspring Development and Diseases
Xingyun Xu1,2, Zhigang Miao2, Miao Sun1
1Institute for Fetology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, China.
Abstract:
The major biological function of the sperm cell is to transmit the paternal genetic and epigenetic information to the embryo as well as the following offspring. Sperm has a unique epigenome. An increasing body of epidemiological study supports that paternal stress induced by environmental exposures and lifestyle can modulate the sperm epigenome (including histone modification, DNA methylation, and noncoding RNA expression), sperm-egg fusion, embryo development, and offspring health. Based on the existing literature, we have summarized the paternal exposure on sperm epigenome along with the representative phenotypes of offspring and the possible mechanism involved.
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