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Exposures such as overweight and smoking may influence individuals as well as their germ cells, during any life stage from early life and through reproductive life. The germ cells may transfer a “fingerprint” of exposure effects that may influence offspring phenotype. Prepuberty may be a time window of particular susceptibility.
