date:Jun 28, 2012
played fewer social interactions as compared with control mice at a dose commonly found within the human population and the effect in later generations was to increase these social interactions.
The study shows BPA produces transgenerational alterations in genes and behaviour perhaps as a consequence of its actions as a steroid hormone agonist/antagonist and/or an epigenetic modifier.
Generational exposition
Emilie Rissman, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and lead author