Sperm protein links father's lifestyle with offspring's health

Finding suggests more attention needs to be paid to fathers' pre-conception health. CBC News

There's more and more evidence that men's lifestyle and environment long before they have kids can affect their future children's health. Now, a Canadian-led study has shed some light on how and why that effect occurs. McGill researchers Sarah Kimmins, Christine Lafleur, Keith Siklenka and Romain Lambrot were part of a team that found changes to signals in sperm proteins called histones can affect the health of a father's offspring.

Read more: McGill News Release; CBC News/Science & Technology