Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons

  • Denny Vågerö,
  • Pia R. Pinger,
  • Vanda Aronsson,
  • Gerard J. van den Berg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07617-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Nutritional experience can have phenotypic consequences in subsequent generations, as is evident from studies in animals and plants. Here, Vågerö et al. find in a large three-generation cohort that access to food in the paternal grandfather associates with all-cause and cancer mortality in male grandchildren.