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Gene may affect infants of smoking mothers
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2002 Research being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that genetics may contribute to low birth weight in infants of mothers who smoke. Infants born to mothers who smoke already risk a lower birth weight. According to the researchers, the reductions were more dramatic among pregnant women with a certain gene makeup. Get the Study:
Maternal Cigarette Smoking, Metabolic Gene Polymorphism, and Infant Birth Weight (JAMA. 2002;287:195-202) Get the Story:
Gene May Add Risk to Smokers' Babies (Reuters 1/9)
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