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Evidence for transgenerational metabolic programming in Drosophila.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Sept 2013
Buescher Jessica L, Musselman Laura P, Wilson Christina A, Lang Tieming, Keleher Madeline, Baranski Thomas J, Duncan Jennifer G
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Worldwide epidemiologic studies have repeatedly demonstrated an association between prenatal nutritional environment, birth weight and susceptibility to adult diseases including obesity, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Despite advances in mammalian model systems, the molecular mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are unclear, but might involve programming mechanisms such as epigenetics. Here we...
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