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High fat diet induced developmental defects in the mouse: oocyte meiotic aneuploidy and fetal growth retardation/brain defects.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Luzzo Kerri M, Wang Qiang, Purcell Scott H, Chi Maggie, Jimenez Patricia T, Grindler Natalia, Schedl Tim, Moley Kelle H
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BACKGROUND: Maternal obesity is associated with poor outcomes across the reproductive spectrum including infertility, increased time to pregnancy, early pregnancy loss, fetal loss, congenital abnormalities and neonatal conditions. Furthermore, the proportion of reproductive-aged woman that are obese in the population is increasing sharply. From current studies it is not clear if the origin of the reproductive...
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