STUDY QUESTION What effects do dietary and lifestyle interventions in pregnancy have on maternal and fetal outcomes related to weight and pregnancy? SUMMARY ANSWER Dietary and lifestyle interventions ...

Organizational processes during prenatal development can have long-term effects on an individual’s phenotype. Because these early developmental stages are sensitive to environmental influences, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers developed a novel approach to infer parent-of-origin (PofO) of alleles without parental genomes. Genome-wide ...

Emerging viruses can adversely affect women's health, leading to an increase in both complications and deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. This is indicated by a population-based ...