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The fetal basis of adult disease: Role of environmental exposures?introduction
1 Jan 2005
Abstract excerpt
It is recognized that 2–5% of all live-born infants have a major developmental defect. Approximately 40% of these defects are thought to be due to the effect(s) of an adverse exposure of a genetically predisposed fetus to intrauterine environmental factors. It is now clear that in many cases the fetus is more sensitive than the adult to the same environmental insults. Exposure to environmental agents during early...
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