Heritable changes in chromatin contacts associated with transgenerational susceptibility to diet-induced insulin dysregulation and obesity

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Gestational exposure of mice to the obesogen tributyltin alters 3-D chromatin interactions in primordial germ cells leading to stable reduction of hepatic Ide expression and predisposing male descendants to insulin dysregulation and obesity.

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