posted on 2025-05-02, 07:20authored byIlana Struys, Carolina Velázquez, Joske Ubels, Charlotte L. LeJeune, Markus J. van Roosmalen, Axel K.M. Rosendahl Huber, Anais J.C.N. van Leeuwen, Wouter Bossuyt, Bernard Thienpont, Thierry Voet, Kristel Van Calsteren, Liesbeth Lenaerts, Ruben van Boxtel, Frédéric Amant
<p>Supplementary tables listing demographic, oncological and obstetrical data per patient (Table S1), statistical comparisons (Table S2) and annotated variants (Table S3).</p>
Funding
Stichting Tegen Kanker (Fondation Contre le Cancer)
This study demonstrates that environmental mutagenic exposure during pregnancy can increase somatic mutation accumulation in the fetus. Given that detrimental early life exposures can adversely affect health outcomes later in life, our study highlights the need for further research into the impact of environmentally induced genomic insults during the perinatal period.See related commentary by Furudate and Takahashi, p. 870