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Comment
. 2014 Jun 3;19(6):894-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.05.015.

Father-son chats: inheriting stress through sperm RNA

Upasna Sharma  1 , Oliver J Rando  2
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Father-son chats: inheriting stress through sperm RNA

Upasna Sharma et al. Cell Metab. .

Abstract

Although mounting evidence in mammals suggests that certain ancestral environmental exposures can influence the phenotype in future generations, mechanisms underlying such intergenerational information transfer remain unclear. A recent report suggests that RNA isolated from sperm can inform offspring of a father's history of early life trauma (Gapp et al., 2014).

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