Nutrients and gene expression

August 3, 2003

Guess what? Now it seems a poor diet may affect genetic expression too.

WRITING IN FRIDAY’S issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology, the

scientists at Duke University Medical Center said they changed the color of baby

mouse fur by feeding pregnant mice four supplements — vitamin B12, folic acid,

choline and betaine.

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Several studies have shown, for instance, that women who eat a poor diet while

pregnant have children who grow up with a tendency to diabetes and heart

disease.

This study could help explain that. The Agouti gene not only affects coat color,

but also metabolic factors involved in diabetes and heart disease.

August 4, 2003

HAH! FINALLY! I've been waiting to shove this down people's throats for

ages! (Can you tell the subject has aggravated me rather seriously in the

past? <g>)

>Guess what? Now it seems a poor diet may affect genetic expression too.

>

>

> WRITING IN FRIDAY’S issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology,

> the scientists at Duke University Medical Center said they changed the

> color of baby mouse fur by feeding pregnant mice four supplements —

> vitamin B12, folic acid, choline and betaine.

>...

>Several studies have shown, for instance, that women who eat a poor diet

>while pregnant have children who grow up with a tendency to diabetes and

>heart disease.

>

>This study could help explain that. The Agouti gene not only affects coat

>color, but also metabolic factors involved in diabetes and heart disease.

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