Genome complexity: Diet changes DNA (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Monday, June 02, 2014, 00:19 (3617 days ago) @ David Turell

Newborn's DNA is changed by maternal diet in Gambia. More epigenetic mechanisms:-http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140429/ncomms4746/full/ncomms4746.html-"We here report a prospective study that replicates the season of conception effects on epigenotype and extends the findings to additional human MEs. We further show that DNA methylation is predictably influenced by periconceptional maternal plasma biomarker concentrations of key micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism. This represents a demonstration in humans that a mother's nutritional status at the time of conception can influence her child's epigenome, with likely lifelong implications."


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