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Asthma and pregnancy: emerging evidence of epigenetic interactions in utero
18 Aug 2009
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Pregnancy is arguably the most critical period of developmental programming. Here, we particularly focus on the emerging paradigm that disease propensity is epigenetically determined by maternal exposures that have the capacity to activate or silence fetal genes through alterations in DNA and histone methylation, histone acetylation, and chromatin structure. RECENT FINDINGS: The most notable...
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