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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by Sharlin on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:56PM (#20588757)
But hormones are one of the things that affect gene expression in turn. There aren’t really many straightforward causal relationships in biology.
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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by refurb on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:10PM (#20588850)
That's true, but the hormones wouldn't changes gene expression unless it was already encoded in the genes.
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