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Maternal nutrition, placental growth and fetal programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Keith Godfrey  and
Sian Robinson
Keith Godfrey*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
Sian Robinson
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
*
*Corresponding author: Dr Keith Godfrey, fax +44(0)1703 70402, email kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 105 - 111
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