| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["Musing"],"appCategory":"Musing","appTitle":"Can bad habits be transmitted from parents to offspring via genes?","appBody":"<p>If your father smoked, your genes are likely to be damaged, and your odds for cancers and other diseases throughout your life could be increased. The men who smoke before conception can damage the genetic information of their offspring. These inherited changes in DNA could possibly render an offspring in the womb susceptible to later disease such as cancer. That is why men should be urged to stop smoking before trying to conceive in the same way women have been urged to quit. Interestingly, a fertile sperm cell takes about three months to fully develop. Therefore men would ultimately need to quit smoking long before conception to avoid causing genetic problems.</p>\n<p>Smoking is a germ cell mutagen. If dad uses cigarettes, his kids will be affected even before they are born. That smoking of fathers at the time around conception can lead to genetic changes in their children indicates that the deleterious effects of smoking can be transmitted through the father to the offspring. These transmitted genetic changes may raise the risk of developing cancer in childhood, particularly leukaemia and other genetic diseases. This information & knowledge should urge men to cease smoking before trying to conceive.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fkvpgv3sf","appParentAuthor":"kwadjobonsu","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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