Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 5124 - 7
• Main Authors: Vågerö, Denny, Pinger, Pia R., Aronsson, Vanda, van den Berg, Gerard J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 11.12.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/499; 692/700/2814; 692/700/478/174; 706/689; Aged; Animals; Cancer; Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality; Cardiovascular Diseases - physiopathology; Child; Children; Cohort Studies; Datasets; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus - mortality; Diabetes Mellitus - physiopathology; Family; Female; Food; Grandparents; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; Males; Middle Aged; Mortality; multidisciplinary; Neoplasms - mortality; Neoplasms - physiopathology; Nutrition Assessment; Nutritional Status; Pedigree; Plant nutrition; Puberty; Science; Sweden; Sweden

Studies of animals and plants suggest that nutritional conditions in one generation may affect phenotypic characteristics in subsequent generations. A small number of human studies claim to show that pre-pubertal nutritional experience trigger a sex-specific transgenerational response along the male...