Cannabis use is associated with potentially heritable widespread changes in autism candidate gene DNA methylation in sperm.

Cannabis use is associated with potentially heritable widespread changes in autism candidate gene DNA methylation in sperm.

Schrott, Rose;Acharya, Kelly;Itchon-Ramos, Nilda;Hawkey, Andrew B;Pippen, Erica;Mitchell, John T;Kollins, Scott H;Levin, Edward D;Murphy, Susan K;
epigenetics 2019 pp. 1-13
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schrott2019cannabisepigenetics

Abstract

Parental cannabis use has been associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring, but how such phenotypes are transmitted is largely unknown. Using reduced representation bisulphite sequencing (RRBS), we recently demonstrated that cannabis use is associated with widespread DNA methylation changes in human and rat sperm. Discs-Large Associated Protein 2 (, involved in synapse organization, neuronal signaling, and strongly implicated in autism, exhibited significant hypomethylation (p < 0.05) at 17 CpG sites in human sperm. We successfully validated the differential methylation present in for nine CpG sites located in intron seven (p < 0.05) using quantitative bisulphite pyrosequencing. Intron 7 DNA methylation and expression in human conceptal brain tissue were inversely correlated (p < 0.01). Adult male rats exposed to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) showed differential DNA methylation at in sperm (p < 0.03), as did the nucleus accumbens of rats whose fathers were exposed to THC prior to conception (p < 0.05). Altogether, these results warrant further investigation into the effects of preconception cannabis use in males and the potential effects on subsequent generations.

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