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Does the fetal genotype affect maternal physiology during pregnancy?
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Oct 2007
Petry Clive J, Ong Ken K, Dunger David B
Abstract excerpt
Conventional wisdom states that associations between fetal growth and diseases in pregnancy, such as pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and gestational diabetes (GDM), result from effects of the mother's genotype or environment acting on her physiology which subsequently affect the fetus. However, recent evidence from human mothers carrying macrosomic offspring with Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome and pregnant mice...
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