Male obesity causes adipose mitochondrial dysfunction in F1 progeny via a let-7-DICER axis.
Chien Hsiang Huang, Joo-Hyun Park, Ali Altıntaş, Nataša Stanić, Kristine Kyle de Leon, Signe Skog, Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos, Hande Topel, Tobias Lynge Madsen, Sebastian Zanner, Philip M. M. Ruppert, Rocío Valdebenito, Jesper Foged Havelund, Bjørk Ditlev Marcher Larsen, Yen-Ting Chien, , Jan‐Wilhelm Kornfeld
This study shows that male obesity affects adipose mitochondrial function in offspring via the let-7-DICER axis, with reversible effects observed in both mice and human semen.
Nature Communications · Feb 24, 2026Peer-reviewedPhysiology