Glycaemic Index of Maternal Dietary Carbohydrate Differentially Alters and Expression in Offspring in C57BL/6 Mice.

Maternal diet and gestational hyperglycaemia have implications for offspring health. Leptin () and fat mass and obesity-associated () alleles are known to influence body fat mass in humans, potentially via effects on appetite. We hypothesized that expression of , , and other appetite-related genes () in the offspring of female mice are influenced by the glycaemic index (GI) of carbohydrates in the maternal diet.