How You Are Wrong About Inheritance (2) - Children of The Dutch Hunger

During Second World War, the Nazis placed a food embargo on a region of the Netherlands. More than 20.000 people died. The children who were in the womb during that time still suffer the consequences of it today. But how?


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Scientific Articles:

RC Painter; C Osmond; P Gluckman; M Hanson; DIW Phillips; TJ Roseboom (2008). Transgenerational effects of prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine on neonatal adiposity and health in later life. , 115(10), 1243–1249. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2008.01822.x

Heijmans, B. T., Tobi, E. W., Stein, A. D., Putter, H., Blauw, G. J., Susser, E. S., ... & Lumey, L. H. (2008). Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(44), 17046-17049.

Susser, E., Hoek, H. W., & Brown, A. (1998). Neurodevelopmental disorders after prenatal famine: the story of the Dutch Famine Study. American journal of epidemiology, 147(3), 213-216.

Veenendaal, M. V., Painter, R. C., de Rooij, S. R., Bossuyt, P. M., van der Post, J. A., Gluckman, P. D., ... & Roseboom, T. J. (2013). Transgenerational effects of prenatal exposure to the 1944–45 Dutch famine. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 120(5), 548-554.

Azizi, M., Mohamadian, F., Ghajarieah, M., & Direkvand-Moghadam, A. (2017). The effect of individual factors, socioeconomic and social participation on individual happiness: A cross-sectional study. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR, 11(6), VC01.

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