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University Medical Center Groningen study: New-born babies of smoking mothers weigh on average 200 grams less than the babies of non-smoking mothers

Posted on 15, April 2015 by

New-born babies of smoking mothers weigh on average 200 grams less than the babies of non-smoking mothers. Nearly 20 percent of this lower birth weight can be accounted for by the change in DNA methylation of the GFI1 gene as … Read the full press release →

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