Epigenetic Mechanisms of Paternal Stress in Offspring Development and Diseases

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...

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Main Authors: Xingyun Xu, Zhigang Miao, Miao Sun, Bo Wan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:International Journal of Genomics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6632719