Nutrition and epigenetics - How the genome learns from experience

Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-12

  Mathers, John C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; DNA; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLIC ACID; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; METHIONINE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 17144385108     PISSN: 14719827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-3010.2005.00485.x     Document Type: Article

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