Gender-specific disease risks start in the womb
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 01:00
in Health & Medicine
Pregnancy places competing demands on a mother's physiology: Her body wants to produce a strong healthy baby but not at the expense of her own health. Some of the genes that she passes on to her...
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