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Age, Sexual Dimorphism, and Disease Associations in the Developing Human Fetal Lung Transcriptome
19 Nov 2015
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The fetal origins of disease hypothesis suggests that variations in the course of prenatal lung development may affect life-long pulmonary function growth, decline, and pathobiology. Many studies support the existence of differences in the developing lung trajectory in males and females, and sex-specific differences in the prevalence of chronic lung diseases, such as asthma and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The...
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