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Epigenetics, Maternal Diet and Metabolic Programming
2019-10-18
Abstract excerpt
Background: The maternal environment influences embryonic and fetal life. Nutritional deficits or excesses alter the trajectory of fetus/offspring’s development. The concept of “developmental programming” and “developmental origins of health and disease” consists of the idea that maternal diet may remodel the genome and lead to epigenetic changes. These changes are induced during early life, permanently altering t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f07f0ded-9009-5c92-8968-9240d0debeea
- DOI
- 10.2174/1874196701907010045
