Early life events and their consequences for later disease: A life history and evolutionary perspective
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The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) phenomenon is considered as a subset of the broader processes of developmental plasticity by which organisms adapt to their environment during their life course which helps in understanding of human biology from the perspective of influence of early life influences on later disease risk. This view of human disease offers new approaches to prevention, diagnosis and intervention.
Publication Name: American Journal of Human Biology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1042-0533
Year: 2007
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Prader-willi syndrome and the evolution of human childhood
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Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the absence of expression of genes that are normally expressed only when paternally derived and children with PWS will fail to express behaviors that have increased mothers' costs of child-rearing. The aspects of the PWS phenotype that affect appetite and feeding are focused.
Publication Name: American Journal of Human Biology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1042-0533
Year: 2003
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