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Growing evidence indicates that maternal metabolic disorders (obesity in humans and negative energy balance in cattle) can disturb epigenetic programming, such as DNA methylation, in the offspring. This study provides evidence supporting this link.
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This page is a summary of: Exposure of bovine oocytes and embryos to elevated non-esterified fatty acid concentrations: integration of epigenetic and transcriptomic signatures in resultant blastocysts, BMC Genomics, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3366-y.
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