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Epigenetic Mechanisms Affecting Regulation of Energy Balance: Many Questions, Few Answers
21 May 2014
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Extensive human and animal model data show that nutrition and other environmental influences during critical periods of embryonic, fetal, and early postnatal life can affect the development of body weight regulatory pathways, with permanent consequences for risk of obesity. Epigenetic processes are widely viewed as a leading mechanism to explain the lifelong persistence of such "developmental programming" of...
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