BY SOLA OGUNDIPE
Exposure to air pollution early in life or during childbirth may alter a woman’s DNA and make her more suceptible to developing premenopausal breast cancer later in life.
This is the latest discovery by researchers at the Social and Preventive Medicine Department of the University at Buffalo, USA.
Higher air pollution concentration at the time of first child birth also was associated with changes in p16, a gene involved in tumor suppression, according to
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