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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 750-758Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.024
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- NIH [R01HD078679, R01DA036898, R01HD080224, DP1ES025458, R01DA033664]
- New York Stem Cell Foundation
- March of Dimes [FY13-1268]
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Paternal diet can impact metabolic phenotypes in offspring, but mechanisms underlying such intergenerational information transfer remain obscure. Here, we interrogate cytosine methylation patterns in spermobtained from mice consuming one of three diets, generating whole genome methylation maps for four pools of sperm samples and for 12 individual sperm samples, as well as 61 genome-scale methylation maps. We find that epivariation, either stochastic or due to unknown demographic or environmental factors, was a far stronger contributor to the sperm methylome than was the diet consumed. Variation in cytosine methylation was particularly dramatic over tandem repeat families, including ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeats, but rDNA methylation was strongly correlated with genetic variation in rDNA copy number and was not influenced by paternal diet. These results identify loci of genetic and epigenetic lability in the mammalian genome but argue against a direct role for sperm cytosine methylation in dietary reprogramming of offspring metabolism.
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