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Rutgers University

Drinking During Pregnancy

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Researchers looked for alcohol-induced DNA changes in pregnant women and their children. They found changes to two genes -- POMC, which regulates the stress-response system, and PER2, which influences the body's biological clock -- in women who drank moderate to high levels of alcohol during pregnancy and in children who had been exposed to those levels of alcohol in the womb.

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Syani Mukherjee/Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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