AMHERST, Mass. — A new three - year, $ 440,000 study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now underway to investigate whether phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on the couples» reproductive success,
via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on couples» reproductive success
via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
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Fathers may have heritable physiological impacts on their children
via genetic and
epigenetic mechanisms that begin to emerge shortly after conception12 and which may influence maternal investment during pregnancy.13 Older fathers tend to transmit more mutations to their offspring, 14 while early childhood paternal stressors predict children's adolescent gene methylation patterns (a type of chemical
modification of DNA).15