A common cause for a common phenotype: The gatekeeper hypothesis in fetal programming

Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior

Ian C.G. Weaver, Nadia Cervoni, Frances A. Champagne et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2004 · 6.1K citations

Behavioral Neuroscience, Medicine, Genetics +4

Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64.

C. N. Hales, David J. Barker, P. Clark et al. · BMJ · 1991 · 2.7K citations · Full text

Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (syndrome X): relation to reduced fetal growth

David J. Barker, C. N. Hales, Caroline Fall et al. · Diabetologia · 1993 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Metabolic Syndrome, Hypertension, Developmental Biology +8

Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life.

David J. Barker, A R Bull, Clive Osmond et al. · BMJ · 1990 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Dietary Protein Restriction of Pregnant Rats Induces and Folic Acid Supplementation Prevents Epigenetic Modification of Hepatic Gene Expression in the Offspring

Karen A. Lillycrop, Emma Phillips, Alan A. Jackson et al. · Journal of Nutrition · 2005 · 1.1K citations

Nutrition, Pregnant Rats Induces, Hepatology +13