Smoking in pregnancy linked to male infertility

Smoking during pregnancy adversely affects the reproductive systems of male foetuses, according to Scottish scientists. Their study looked at the expression of genes in male foetal tissue (testes, blood and liver), comparing pregnancies of mothers who smoked with those that did not. Levels of expression of a gene called DHH, which is specific to the Sertoli cells of the testes, was found to be sig ...

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