Almost 2 billion adults in the world are overweight, and more than half of them are classified
as obese, while nearly one-third of children globally experience poor growth and …

Male infertility affects half of infertile couples and, currently, a relevant percentage of cases
of male infertility is considered as idiopathic. Although the male contribution to human …

Maternal-offspring interactions in mammals involve both cooperation and conflict. The fetus
has evolved ways to manipulate maternal physiology to enhance placental nutrient transfer …

The associations between maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and low birth weight (LBW,<
2500 g) remain inconclusive. Therefore, birth weight in a Polish prospective cohort of 912 …

Imprinted genes–critical for growth, metabolism, and neuronal function–are expressed from
one parental allele. Parent-of-origin-dependent CpG methylation regulates this expression …

Pregnancy may be the most nutritionally sensitive stage in the life cycle, and improved
metabolic health during gestation and early postnatal life can reduce the risk of chronic …

Epigenetics is the branch of genetics that studies the different mechanisms that influence
gene expression without direct modification of the DNA sequence. An ever-increasing …

Birth weight is a common measure of fetal growth that is associated with a range of health
outcomes. It is directly affected by the fetal genome and indirectly by the maternal genome …

Many complex traits or diseases, such as infectious and autoimmune diseases, cancer,
xenobiotics exposure, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the …

Osteoarthritis (OA) has long been viewed as a degenerative disease of cartilage, but
accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation has a critical role in its pathogenesis. In …