Interesting take on the effects of maternal thyroid hormones on the behaviour and phenotype of offspring in animals (applies to humans too)?

[diogenes]

Maternal Thyroid Hormones: An Unexplored Mechanism Underlying Maternal Effects in an Ecological Framework

February 2018

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 91(3)

DOI: 10.1086/697380

Project: Maternal thyroid hormones: ecology, evolution and environmental disruption

Suvi RuuskanenSuvi RuuskanenBin-Yan HsuBin-Yan Hsu

[Rita-D]

Hi Diogenes, should there be a link to this document? I can't find it.

Thanks.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Rita-D]

Try this for the abstract ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/296...

or the full paper here utu.fi/en/units/sci/units/b...

[Rita-D in reply to RedApple]

Thank you.

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I read only part of the paper and found it extremely interesting. I was adopted as a baby and had two sisters that I only found in my 40's.

One, the older one has now died of bile duct cancer. The other sister who is 11 months younger than I has asthma and thyroid problems. I have no thyroid . We have all had our gallbladders removed. My point is this:- we all had the same mother and father but we were all brought up in entirely different places and circumstances. Interesting.