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Mums Minds Matter

Amy Jenny Susan Desiree Keerthi Finlay-Jones Downs Prescott Silva Kottampally BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) BApplSci

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The Engage Study: discovering and delighting in your baby - a pilot study

Andrew Desiree Gail Kandice Videos Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Silva Alvares Varcin PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD PhD M.Psych (Clinical), PhD

ORIGINS

ORIGINS is Australia's largest longitudinal cohort study of its kind. Following 10,000 WA children from their time in the womb into early childhood, ORIGINS researchers are working to better understand when and why non-communicable diseases develop, and provide solutions for early intervention to ensure every child and family flourishes throughout their lifetime.

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Can polymorphisms in the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) gene cluster alter the effects of fish oil supplementation on plasma and erythrocyte fatty acid profiles? An exploratory study

Overall results of this preliminary study suggest that supplementation with fish oil may only significantly increase DHA in minor allele carriers of FADS1 SNPs. Further research is required to confirm this novel finding.

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Prevention and Natural History of Food Allergy

The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked to the...

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Epigenetic modifications: Mechanisms of disease and biomarkers of food allergy

The rise in IgE-mediated food allergy in recent times is the likely result of gene-environment interactions mediated via epigenetic pathways.

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Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Maternal and Family Factors

The need to target prevention and intervention efforts for childhood overweight and obesity towards families with overweight parents

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The establishment of DOHaD working groups in Australia and New Zealand

This report introduces the DOHaD ANZ Working Groups and summarizes their plans and activities

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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling identifies a folate-sensitive region of differential methylation upstream of ZFP57-imprinting regulator in humans

This study identified that expsoure to folate has effects on the regulation of DNA methylation during fetal development.