Poor nutrition in the womb causes permanent genetic changes in the offspring

The new science of epigenetics explains how genes can be modified by the environment, and a prime result of epigenetic inquiry has just been published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org): You are what your mother did not eat during pregnancy. In the research report, scientists from the University of Utah show that rat foetuses receiving poor nutrition in the womb become genetically primed to be born into an environment lacking proper nutrition...

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