Fetal Alcohol Exposure and IQ at Age 8: Evidence from a Population-Based Birth-Cohort Study

Sarah J. Lewis; Luisa Zuccolo; George Davey Smith; John Macleod; Santiago Rodriguez; Elizabeth S. Draper; Margaret Barrow; Rosa Alati; Kapil Sayal; Susan Ring; Jean Golding; Ron Gray

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049407

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Fetal Alcohol Exposure and IQ at Age 8: Evidence from a Population-Based Birth-Cohort Study

Sarah J. Lewis ,

* E-mail: s.j.lewis@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Luisa Zuccolo,

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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George Davey Smith,

Affiliation MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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John Macleod,

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Santiago Rodriguez,

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Elizabeth S. Draper,

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Margaret Barrow,

Affiliation Clinical Genetics, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Rosa Alati,

Affiliation School of Population Health & Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
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Kapil Sayal,

Affiliation Developmental Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Susan Ring,

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Jean Golding,

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Ron Gray

Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Fetal Alcohol Exposure and IQ at Age 8: Evidence from a Population-Based Birth-Cohort Study

Sarah J. Lewis,
Luisa Zuccolo,
George Davey Smith,
John Macleod,
Santiago Rodriguez,
Elizabeth S. Draper,
Margaret Barrow,
Rosa Alati,
Kapil Sayal,
Susan Ring

Published: November 14, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049407

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An anomaly or just luck? Perhaps both b

Posted by poppy on 04 Dec 2014 at 14:13 GMT

I am a recovering chronic alcoholic, thankfully sober for 33 years. Unfortunately I drank through my two pregnancies although I was very young and my drinking was luckily not so advanced as in later years.
I do take on board what you have publicised, but would like you to.know that my eldest son became a qualified IT engineer and my younger gained a scholarship to Oxford, later becoming an award winning television producer.
I write this not to boast, but to highlight an anomaly.

No competing interests declared.

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