And
birth size doesn't count for much, either; even the runt of the litter can end up taller than her littermates.
The role of growth hormone in
determining birth size and early postnatal growth, using congenital growth hormone deficiency (GHD) as a model
It is possible that
altered birth size and / or placental size, both of which have been linked to prenatal sGC exposure [22,27] and child mental health [23,29], would lie on the GC programming pathway.
They review data relating to
birth size and early growth in both preterm and term born infants and emerging data on the role of epigenetic mechanisms.