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USC researcher receives $3.1M to study early brain development in babies born to diabetic mothers

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It has long been understood that pregnant women with diabetes are more likely to have children with obesity than women who do not have diabetes during pregnancy.

May 16 2024Keck School of Medicine of USC But scientists have not fully understood the cause or why babies born to mothers with diabetes are also more likely to develop obesity and associated metabolic disorders later in life.

For her research, Luo is using neuroimaging data collected by a large, multinational neuroimaging consortium called Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis, or ENIGMA, which is led by Paul Thompson, PhD, professor of ophthalmology, neurology, psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, radiology, psychiatry, and engineering at the Keck School of Medicine.

Related StoriesLuo also plans to compare the neuroimaging abnormalities found in these babies' brains with gene expression maps to identify genetics that may be involved in the structural and functional changes in the brain. This piece of the project will connect the findings with the underlying biology and potentially provide new targets for drug development.

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