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(Submitter supplied) Background Chronic preconception paternal alcohol use modifies the sperm epigenome, inducing fetoplacental growth defects in the offspring of exposed males. A crucial outstanding question in the field of paternal epigenetic inheritance concerns the resilience of the male reproductive tract and the germline's capacity to recover and correct sperm-inherited epigenetic errors after stressor withdrawal. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL13112

18 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Background Chronic preconception paternal alcohol use modifies the sperm epigenome, inducing fetoplacental growth defects in the offspring of exposed males. A crucial outstanding question in the field of paternal epigenetic inheritance concerns the resilience of the male reproductive tract and the germline's capacity to recover and correct sperm-inherited epigenetic errors after stressor withdrawal. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL16417

8 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Spermatozoa harbor a complex and environment sensitive pool of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA)1, which influences offspring development and adult phenotypes1-7. Whether spermatozoa in the epididymis are directly susceptible to environmental cues is not fully understood8. We used two distinct paradigms of preconception acute high fat diet to dissect epididymal vs testicular contributions to the sperm sncRNA pool and offspring health. more...

Organism:

Homo sapiens; Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing; Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL17021 GPL24676 GPL24247

307 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Spermatozoa deliver a complex and environment sensitive pool of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA) to the oocyte at fertilisation [ref], which influences offspring development and adult phenotypic trajectories [refs]. Whether mature spermatozoa in the epididymis can directly sense the environment is still not fully understood [ref]. Here, we used two distinct paradigms of preconception acute High Fat Diet challenge to dissect epididymal vs spermatogenic contributions to the sperm sncRNA pool and offspring health. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL24247

221 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Spermatozoa deliver a complex and environment sensitive pool of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA) to the oocyte at fertilisation, which influences offspring development and adult phenotypic trajectories. Whether mature spermatozoa in the epididymis can directly sense the environment is still not fully understood. Here, we used two distinct paradigms of preconception acute High Fat Diet challenge to dissect epididymal vs spermatogenic contributions to the sperm sncRNA pool and offspring health. more...

Organism:

Homo sapiens; Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL24676 GPL24247

44 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Spermatozoa deliver a complex and environment sensitive pool of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA) to the oocyte at fertilisation, which influences offspring development and adult phenotypic trajectories. Whether mature spermatozoa in the epididymis can directly sense the environment is still not fully understood. Here, we used two distinct paradigms of preconception acute High Fat Diet challenge to dissect epididymal vs spermatogenic contributions to the sperm sncRNA pool and offspring health. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL24247

6 Samples

Download data: MTX, TSV

(Submitter supplied) Spermatozoa deliver a complex and environment sensitive pool of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA) to the oocyte at fertilisation, which influences offspring development and adult phenotypic trajectories. Whether mature spermatozoa in the epididymis can directly sense the environment is still not fully understood. Here, we used two distinct paradigms of preconception acute High Fat Diet challenge to dissect epididymal vs spermatogenic contributions to the sperm sncRNA pool and offspring health. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL17021

36 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Here, we describe the use of high-throughput sequencing to examine the developmental basis of placental growth defects observed in the male offspring of alcohol-exposed fathers. We exposed C57BL/6J male mice to 10% ethanol for ten weeks, then bred them to naïve CD-1 dams. The male offspring of ethanol-exposed sires exhibited placental growth defects. We isolated total RNA from four F1 male placentae from each control and ethanol preconception treatment and conducted deep-sequencing analysis of the transcriptome. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL19057

8 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Established dogma holds that all facets of chromatin organization and histone posttranslational modification are complete before sperm exits the testes. Using proteomic analysis to contrast immature spermatozoa and mature sperm from the epididymis, we find progressive changes in multiple histone posttranslational modifications, including H3K4me1, H3K27ac H3K79me2, H3K64ac, H3K122ac, H4K16ac, H3K9me2, and H4K20me3. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL21626

8 Samples

Download data: BIGWIG

(Submitter supplied) Parental environmental exposures can strongly influence descendant risks for adult disease. Metabolic disorders arise from the intersection of environmental and genetic risk factors, with epigenetic inheritance being at the center of the familial cycle of transgenerational disease. How paternal high-fat diet changes the sperm chromatin leading to the acquisition of metabolic disease in offspring remains controversial and ill-defined. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing; Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL21103 GPL24247

75 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Using an established mouse model of chronic exposure, previous work by our group had linked preconception paternal alcohol use to sex-specific patterns of fetal growth restriction and placental dysfunction. The goal of the present study was to investigate the long-term impact chronic preconception paternal alcohol exposure has on offspring growth and metabolic programming. In the male offspring, we observed increases in both the expression of genes within the pro-fibrotic TGF-ß signaling pathway as well as total levels of cellular hydroxyproline within the liver. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL21103

6 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) It has been demonstrated that males exposed to adversity prior to conception sire offspring exhibiting abnormal behaviour and neuroendocrine function. Epigenetic factors such as microRNA (miRNA) within sperm may be responsible for driving these effects. Synthetic glucocorticoids (sGC) are a class of drug that are commonly prescribed and may have implications for intergenerational transmission. Therefore, we hypothesized that caput and cauda sperm miRNA profiles will be altered following sGC exposure in guinea pigs. more...

Organism:

Cavia porcellus; synthetic construct

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by array

Platform:

GPL21572

24 Samples

Download data: CEL

(Submitter supplied) In this study, we describe the use of high-throughput sequencing to investigate the developmental basis of preimplantation embryos sired by alcohol-exposed males through in vitro fertilization (IVF). We exposed C57BL/6J male mice to one of three treatment groups. Sexually mature males were randomly selected to voluntarily consume 0% ethanol (control), 6% ethanol, or 10% ethanol for ten weeks. After treatment, the males were sacrificed for sperm collection and cryopreservation for IVF procedures. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL24247

9 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) RNAs present in mature mammalian sperm are delivered to the zygote at fertilization, where they have the potential to affect early development. The biogenesis of the small RNA payload of mature sperm is therefore of great interest, as it may be a target of signaling pathways linking paternal conditions to offspring phenotype. Recent studies have suggested the surprising hypothesis that the small RNA payload carried by mature sperm may include RNAs that were not synthesized during testicular spermatogenesis, but that are instead delivered to sperm during the process of post-testicular maturation in the epididymis. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL13112 GPL19057

120 Samples

Download data: XLSX

(Submitter supplied) The small RNA payload of mammalian sperm undergoes dramatic remodeling during development, as several waves of microRNAs and tRNA fragments are shipped to sperm during post-testicular maturation in the epididymis. Here, we take advantage of this developmental process to probe the function of the sperm RNA payload in preimplantation development. We generated zygotes via intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using sperm obtained from the proximal (caput) vs. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL19057

933 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Interest in the sperm epigenome continues to grow in view of the realization that it is vulnerable to dynamic modifications arising from a variety of paternal environment exposures and that this legacy can serve as an important determinant of intergenerational inheritance. It has been postulated that such exchange may be communicated to maturing populations of spermatozoa via the transfer of small non-coding RNAs in a mechanism involving epididymosomes; small membrane bound vesicles secreted by the soma of the male reproductive tract (epididymis). more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL13112

9 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Sperm RNA can be modified by environmental factors and has been implicated in communicating signals about changes in a father's environment to the offspring. The RNA composition of sperm is influenced during its final stage of maturation in the epididymis by extracellular vesicles released by epididymal cells. We studied the effect of exposure to stress in postnatal life on the transcriptome of epididymal extracellular vesicles using a mouse model of transgenerational transmission. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL17021

20 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) In recent years considerable effort has been devoted to understanding the epigenetic control of sperm development leading to an increased appreciation of the importance of RNA interference pathways, and in particular microRNAs (miRNAs), as key regulators of spermatogenesis and epididymal maturation. It has also been shown that sperm are endowed with an impressive array of miRNA that have been implicated in various aspects of fertilization and embryo development. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL13112

6 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Purpose: To compare the transcriptome profiles (RNA-seq) of cultured human epididymis cells and tissue from the caput, corpus and cauda regions of the human epididymis. Methods: Human epididymis tissue was obtained with Institutional Review Board approval from 3 patients (UC05, UC06, UC09, range: 22 - 36 years) undergoing inguinal radical orchiectomy for a clinical diagnosis of testicular cancer. None of the epididymides had extension of the testicular cancer. more...

Organism:

Homo sapiens

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL11154

15 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Preterm birth (PTB), spontaneous parturition prior to 37 weeks gestation, is the leading cause of neonatal mortality. We previously demonstrated that developmental exposure of male mice (F1 animals) to the environmental endocrine disruptor 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) was associated with reduced sperm quantity/quality in adulthood and their control mating partners frequently delivered preterm. more...

Organism:

Mus musculus

Type:

Methylation profiling by genome tiling array

Platform:

GPL10324

8 Samples

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