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Impacts of maternal and paternal nutrition on fetal programming. Either undernutrition or overnutrition of the mother or father affects expression of the fetal genome, which may have lifelong consequences. Thus, alterations in fetal nutrition may result in developmental adaptations that permanently change the structure, physiology, and metabolism of offspring, thereby predisposing individuals to metabolic, endocrine, and cardiovascular diseases in adult life.
