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Fig. 7.1 Magnetic resonance images of a 24-week-old foetus. From Anblagan et al. (unpublished observation) The same scanner can be used for acquiring different types of images by changing the exact…

Fig. 10.1 Healthy and total (healthy + unhealthy) life expectancy at birth in England, 1994–1999. Adapted from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0. From Bajekal (2005) Given…

Fig. 9.1 Meta-analysis of the effects of breastfeeding on cognitive development. Numbers indicate co-variate-adjusted mean differences (and 95 % confidence intervals) for matched composite observations across 11 different studies. Reprinted from Anderson…

Fig. 4.1 DNA–chromatin complexes a binding of basic histone proteins, b a nucleosome—two turns of DNA wrapped around core histones, c electron micrograph of nucleosomal filaments, d cross section of a…

Fig. 1.1 Breastfeeding and general intelligence: mediation and moderation From this pattern of “transactions”, we conclude that exposure (breastfeeding) affects the outcome (general intelligence) by influencing mediator 1 (brain growth inferred…

Fig. 3.1 An individual and his/her internal, social and physical environments Because the cells of various tissues are exposed to hundreds of small molecules (metabolites), hormones and enzymes circulating through the…

Fig. 5.1 Agouti mice. From Morgan et al. (1999) Such trans-generational epigenetic transmission is likely to vary with the number of subsequent generations. For example, certain epigenetic modifications of histones in…

Study Age (years) MRI Brain + ALSPAC 18–21 500 + Generation R: Wave 1 5–7 1,000 + Generation R: Wave 2 10–12 5,000* IMAGEN 13.5–15.5 2,000 + NFBC1986 25–27 900…

Fig. 6.1 Genome, Transcriptome, Proteome, Metabolome and Lipidome (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipidomics). Transcriptome refers to the collection of all genes expressed in a given tissue at a given time. Similarly, a proteome is…