Bushfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and epigenetic changes in offspring

澳大利亚2019/2020年的森林大火季节在长度和强度方面都是前所未有的，对社区公共卫生至关重要的一个问题是，接触森林大火烟雾是否会对当时怀孕的母亲的孩子产生长期影响。这项资助研究了一种潜在的机制，称为表观遗传学（改变基因表达方式以响应环境条件），研究对象是那些母亲暴露在森林大火烟雾中的新生儿。

The Australian bushfire season of 2019/2020 was unprecedented in terms of length and intensity, and a question of significant importance to public health for the community is whether exposure to bushfire smoke has long term impacts on children whose mothers were pregnant at the time. This grant investigates a potential mechanism called epigenetics (which changes the way genes are expressed in response to environmental conditions), in newborns whose mothers were exposed to bushfire smoke.