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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
These conditions, which contribute to infant mortality, had been declining but in recent years have started to increase in the region.
A $7.7 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will pay for the five-year study, which will focus on what role environment, genes and socioeconomic status play in these births. It's the largest EPA grant ever awarded for a children's research center.
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