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Vitamin C Prevents Offspring DNA Methylation Changes Associated with Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy
19 Apr 2017
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RATIONALE: Infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy demonstrate lifelong decreases in pulmonary function. DNA methylation changes associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy have been described in placenta and cord blood at delivery, in fetal lung, and in buccal epithelium and blood during childhood. We demonstrated in a randomized clinical trial ( ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT00632476) that...
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