title: Globalization, climate change, and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: will our descendants be at risk?
abstract: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has gained increased attention due to the possibility that exposure to environmental contaminants induce diseases that propagate across generations through epigenomic alterations in gametes. In laboratory animals, exposure to environmental toxicants such as fungicides, pesticides, or plastic compounds has been shown to produce abnormal reproductive or metabolic phenotypes that are transgenerationally transmitted. Human exposures to environmental toxicants have increased due to industrialization and globalization, as well as the incidence of diseases shown to be transgenerationally transmitted in animal models. This new knowledge poses an urgent call to study transgenerational consequences of current human exposures to environmental toxicants.
authors: Avian Behavioral Genomics and Physiology Group, IFM Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, 58 183 Sweden.
authors: Carlos
authors: C
authors: Guerrero-Bosagna
authors: Avian Behavioral Genomics and Physiology Group, IFM Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, 58 183 Sweden.
authors: Per
authors: P
authors: Jensen
keywords: Environmental exposures; Food industry; Globalization; Industrialization; Non-infectious diseases; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
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