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  • Risal, Sanjiv; Pei, Yu; Lu, Haojiang; Manti, Maria; Fornes, Romina; Pui, Han-Pin; Zhao, Zhiyi; Massart, Julie; Ohlsson, Claes; Lindgren, Eva; Crisosto, Nicolas; Maliqueo, Manuel; Echiburú, Barbara; Ladrón de Guevara, Amanda; Sir-Petermann, Teresa; Larsson, Henrik; Rosenqvist, Mina A; Cesta, Carolyn E; Benrick, Anna; Deng, Qiaolin; Stener-Victorin, Elisabet

    Nature medicine, 12/2019, Letnik: 25, Številka: 12
    Journal Article

    How obesity and elevated androgen levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affect their offspring is unclear. In a Swedish nationwide register-based cohort and a clinical case-control study from Chile, we found that daughters of mothers with PCOS were more likely to be diagnosed with PCOS. Furthermore, female mice (F ) with PCOS-like traits induced by late-gestation injection of dihydrotestosterone, with and without obesity, produced female F -F offspring with PCOS-like reproductive and metabolic phenotypes. Sequencing of single metaphase II oocytes from F -F offspring revealed common and unique altered gene expression across all generations. Notably, four genes were also differentially expressed in serum samples from daughters in the case-control study and unrelated women with PCOS. Our findings provide evidence of transgenerational effects in female offspring of mothers with PCOS and identify possible candidate genes for the prediction of a PCOS phenotype in future generations.