This suggests that if women drink too much in pregnancy, epigenetic changes may cause some of the permanent symptoms seen in fetal alcohol syndrome in their children.

这表明，妇女如果在孕期饮酒过多，表观遗传变异可能会导致他们的子女出现胎儿酒精综合征中的一些固定症状。

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"I saw then that fetal alcohol syndrome was much more common than people thought... Public awareness [in South Africa] started with our initial research," he says.

“从那之后我发现，胎儿醇中毒综合征远比人们想象的更常见……从我们开始研究以来，[南非的]公众意识也开始提升”，他说。

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Awareness of the problem has grown ever since the term, fetal alcohol syndrome, was coined in 1973.

自1973年确定了胎儿醇中毒综合症这一术语，人们增强了对这一问题的意识。

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