Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a complex chronic inflammatory disease of the spine with involvement of the sacroiliac joints. Over the
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Low maternal vitamin D may raise risk for ADHD in offspring
(HealthDay)—There is an association between low maternal vitamin D during early pregnancy and an elevated risk for offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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Fertility treatment, not maternal age, causes epigenetic changes in mouse offspring
Though epigenetic disorders—diseases caused by faulty gene expression—are still rare overall, babies born using fertility treatments have up to an
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Extracellular vesicles help pass information between cells and onto offspring
New studies reveal that small, membrane-bound particles transported between cells have wide-ranging and long-term effects in the brain and throughout
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Low-protein diet during pregnancy increases prostate cancer risk in offspring
The offspring of females fed a low-protein diet during pregnancy and lactation are significantly more likely to develop prostate cancer
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Vaginal microbiome may influence stress levels of offspring
Exposing newborn mice to vaginal microbes from stressed female mice may transfer the effects of stress to the newborns, according
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