Maternal diet and genes interact to affect heart development

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

A pregnant mother's diet may be able to interact with the genes her unborn child inherits and influence the type or severity of birth defect, according to new research. The study suggests that mothers who eat a high fat diet before and through pregnancy could be inadvertently putting the health of their offspring at risk.

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