Obesity Susceptibility May Skip A Generation

People may inherit conditions linked to obesity from their grandmother, researchers from the University of Edinburgh reported in the journal Endocrinology. The authors explained, as background information, that maternal obesity during pregnancy has been associated with a higher risk of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in offspring, what they describe as "a phenomenon attributed to developmental programming (epigenetics)". They added that programming effects may be passed on across generations through both paternal and maternal inheritance. Nobody is sure what the mechanism for this is...

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