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SUBMITTER: Seelan RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7365999 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seelan Ratnam S RS Greene Robert M RM Pisano Michele M MM
MicroRNA (Shariqah, United Arab Emirates) 20200101 3
The adverse developmental effects of exposure to Cigarette Smoke (CS) during pregnancy are documented in this paper. These include low birth weight, congenital anomalies, preterm birth, fetal mortality and morbidity. The current biological thought now recognizes that epigenetics represents a fundamental contributing process in embryogenesis, and that the environment can have a profound effect on shaping the epigenome. It has become increasingly recognized that genes encoding microRNAs (miRNAs) m ...[more]