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Genetic relationship between placental and fetal weights and markers of the metabolic syndrome in rat recombinant inbred strains.
Physiological genomics - 16 Aug 2006
Buresova Martina, Zidek Vaclav, Musilova Alena, Simakova Miroslava, Fucikova Alena, Bila Vlasta, Kren Vladimir, Kazdova Ludmila, Di Nicolantonio Robert, Pravenec Michal
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Epidemiological studies have shown a clear link between fetal growth retardation and an increased propensity for later cardiovascular disease in adults. It has been hypothesized that such early fetal deprivation "programs" individuals toward a life-long metabolical "thrifty phenotype" that predis...
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