A recent study reveals that exposure to air pollution before conception could have consequences on children's health.

Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...

Research by experts at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oxford published in the European Journal of Pediatrics shows that early interventions to support the development of children ...

Internal and external environmental factors, like gender and temperature, influence gene expression. Sex-limited traits are also autosomal. Unlike sex-influenced traits, whose expression differs ...

Children born in spring or summer with a specific gene variant may have a higher risk of celiac disease and lower levels of a ...