Epigenetic changes in early life and future risk of obesity

Maternal high-fat feeding primes steatohepatitis in adult mice offspring, involving mitochondrial dysfunction and altered lipogenesis gene expression

(2009) Kimberley D. Bruce et al.   HEPATOLOGY

DNA methylation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific

(2009) Elmar W. Tobi et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Folic Acid Supplementation during the Juvenile-Pubertal Period in Rats Modifies the Phenotype and Epigenotype Induced by Prenatal Nutrition

(2009) Graham C. Burdge et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin promoter methylation becomes altered by early overfeeding: an epigenetic model of obesity and the metabolic syndrome

(2009) Andreas Plagemann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Pre- and Postnatal Nutritional Histories Influence Reproductive Maturation and Ovarian Function in the Rat

(2009) Deborah M. Sloboda et al.   PLoS One

Feeding pregnant rats a protein-restricted diet persistently alters the methylation of specific cytosines in the hepatic PPARα promoter of the offspring

(2008) Karen A. Lillycrop et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Methyl donor supplementation prevents transgenerational amplification of obesity

(2008) R A Waterland et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

(2008) Peter D. Gluckman et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans

(2008) B. T. Heijmans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex, but not maternal protein or folic acid intake, determines the fatty acid composition of hepatic phospholipids, but not of triacylglycerol, in adult rats

(2008) G.C. Burdge et al.   PROSTAGLANDINS LEUKOTRIENES AND ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS

Diet-Induced Obesity in Female Mice Leads to Offspring Hyperphagia, Adiposity, Hypertension, and Insulin Resistance

(2007) Anne-Maj Samuelsson et al.   HYPERTENSION