Maternal diet induces persistent DNA methylation changes in the muscle of beef calves

Abstract Maternal nutrition during pregnancy can induce epigenetic alterations in the fetal genome, such as changes in DNA methylation. It remains unclear whether these epigenetic alterations due to changes in maternal nutrition are transitory or persist over time. Here, we hypothesized that materna...

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Main Authors: Rocío Amorín, Lihe Liu, Philipe Moriel, Nicolás DiLorenzo, Phillip A. Lancaster, Francisco Peñagaricano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28896-3