Overweight Mothers Give Birth To Offspring Who Become Heavy, Amplifying Obesity Through Generations

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed -- a phenomenon called epigenetics -- could affect successive generations of mice.

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