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ArticleScientific reports2022

Environmental induced transgenerational inheritance impacts systems epigenetics in disease etiology.

Daniel Beck, Eric E Nilsson, Millissia Ben Maamar, Michael K Skinner

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Unravelling male infertility through epigenetics: present understanding and future challenges.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026
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  10. Methods for Investigating the Sperm Epigenome.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  19. Concern over differences between experimental design and data analyses in Jones et al.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  20. Endocrine disruptors in plastics alter β-cell physiology and increase the risk of diabetes mellitus.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel BeckCenter for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4236, USA.
Eric E NilssonCenter for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4236, USA.
Millissia Ben MaamarCenter for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4236, USA.
Michael K SkinnerCenter for Reproductive Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4236, USA. skinner@wsu.edu.
Washington State University · US

Funding

EPIGENETIC TRANSGENERATIONAL ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR ACTIONSR01ES012974 · NIEHS · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SKINNER, MICHAEL K · 2005 to 2018
$4.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES012974NIH HHS ES012974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental toxicants have been shown to promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease through exposure specific epigenetic alterations in the germline. The current study examines the actions of hydrocarbon jet fuel, dioxin, pesticides (permethrin and methoxychlor), plastics, and herbicides (glyphosate and atrazine) in the promotion of transgenerational disease in the great grand-offspring rats that correlates with specific disease associated differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs). The transgenerational disease observed was similar for all exposures and includes pathologies of the kidney, prostate, and testis, pubertal abnormalities, and obesity. The disease specific DMRs in sperm were exposure specific for each pathology with negligible overlap. Therefore, for each disease the DMRs and associated genes were distinct for each exposure generational lineage. Observations suggest a large number of DMRs and associated genes are involved in a specific pathology, and various environmental exposures influence unique subsets of DMRs and genes to promote the transgenerational developmental origins of disease susceptibility later in life. A novel multiscale systems biology basis of disease etiology is proposed involving an integration of environmental epigenetics, genetics and generational toxicology.

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DNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticAnimalsInheritance PatternsMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySpermatozoa

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PMID35440735
PMCPMC9018793
OpenAlexW4224215557

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