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Profiling nonhuman primate germline RNA to understand the legacy of early life stress

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jez.2501

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adolescence; early life stress; infant maltreatment; nonhuman primate; RNA; sperm

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  1. National Institute of Mental Health [MH078105]
  2. NIDA [DA038588]
  3. NIH [P51-OD011132]

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The study found that exposure to naturally occurring adverse caregiving of infant rhesus macaques can affect RNA in the male germline, with the top 100 identified transcripts related to germline biology and reproduction. While definitive assessment of stress-induced alterations of RNA in the male germline of rhesus macaques that experienced ELS was not possible due to small sample sizes, this research sets the foundation for future investigations into how early adversity may alter male germline across species.
Exposure to stress is a risk factor for perturbed mental health, including impoverished regulation of emotional and physiological responses that accompany anxiety and mood disorders, substance abuse and behavioral disorders. Such disruptions to well-being could be triggered by discrete environmental events or pervasive early life stress (ELS) resulting for example from adverse caregiving. Recent data mostly collected from rodents exposed to anthropogenic stressors suggest that one way via which the detrimental effects of such stress extend beyond the exposed population to future offspring is via stress-induced alterations of RNA found in the paternal germline. In contrast, less attention has been paid to how naturally occurring stress in males might influence offspring biology and behavior. In this study, we used a translational nonhuman primate model of ELS caused by naturally occurring adverse caregiving of infant macaques to (1) profile total RNA in the adolescent male germline, and (2) identify how those RNA profiles are affected by exposure to ELS. Our findings that the top 100 transcripts identified correspond to transcripts related to germline biology and reproduction demonstrate the validity and feasibility of profiling RNA in the germline of rhesus macaques. While our small sample sizes precluded definitive assessment of stress-induced alterations of RNA in the male germline of rhesus macaques that experienced ELS, our study sets the foundation for future investigations of how early adversity might alter the male germline, across species and in experimental protocols that involve anthropogenic vs natural stressors.

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