Dads can pass trauma, lifestyle and diet to their children through their sperm, study says [Metro.co.uk]

Marcia Fervienza 11/11/1810:37 PM

We know babies inherit genes from their parents but they don’t tend to be environmental factors carried on from parent to children.

But a new study shows that sperm can pass traumas that men have experienced in their lives, as well as other lifestyle choices such as diet to their kids.

Sperms carry ‘epigenetic’ marks the determine how a child’s cells develop, according to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Their research comes after a study showed that sons of Union Army soldiers had a higher risk of an earlier death if their dads experienced brutal conditions as prisoners of war.

The research on mice and humans found that 10% of epigenetic information is contained in sperm.

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