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Amount of protein consumed by pregnant women modulates the facial appearance of offspring, study finds
They found enhancers that were related to genes that have previously been associated with the mTORC1 pathway, which is known to play a major role in the way cells process food. Their findings ...
Big nose? Blame your mum! Your facial features may be influenced by what your mother ate during pregnancy, study claims
The more protein that is consumed during pregnancy, the more active these genes, known as 'mTORC1', become. Researchers say ...
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A Protein-Sensing Molecular Switch Alters Facial Features
They identified the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway as a highly used system. Then the researchers developed a conditional mutant mouse model with a deleted upstream mTORC1 ...