Impact on birth weight of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy mediated by DNA methylation

Volume: 19, Issue: 1
Published: Apr 25, 2018
Abstract
Cigarette smoking has severe adverse health consequences in adults and in the offspring of mothers who smoke during pregnancy. One of the most widely reported effects of smoking during pregnancy is reduced birth weight which is in turn associated with chronic disease in adulthood. Epigenome-wide association studies have revealed that smokers show a characteristic "smoking methylation pattern", and recent authors have proposed that DNA...
Paper Details
Title
Impact on birth weight of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy mediated by DNA methylation
Published Date
Apr 25, 2018
Volume
19
Issue
1
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