Diet During Pregnancy

Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom led a research that revealed how a mother’s diet during pregnancy could permanently affect her child’s attributes. This could also explain how diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity are inherited. It also was shown that attributes, such as weight, could be shaped by genetic variation in an unexpected area of the genome. Genetic studies have been unable to interpret the process by which some diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity are inherited until now. The discovery was published in Science, which was co-authored by University of Cambridge …read more