Child's birth weight depends more on dad's ethnicity

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 15:00 in Psychology & Sociology

A baby's birth weight depends more on the dad's ethnic origin than the mom's, and babies with Asian or South Asian dads are smaller than the Canadian average, regardless of their mom's ethnicity, a new study suggests.

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