fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Two such hypotheses emerge from the current study. The first is that alcohol causes a delay in development of the nervous system by inhibiting specific sets of genes involved in neural development (Ngn, Nhlh, Sox, Igf, Ntf, and Egf). The second is that neural tube defects are mediated by the inhibition of genes in the epidermal growth factor signaling pathway and genes encoding histone variants.
