A sideways glance. Do you remember your grandmother's food? How epigenetic changes transmit consequences of nutritional exposure from one generation to the next

Genes and Nutrition

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Scarino, Maria Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 40549108607     PISSN: 15558932     EISSN: 18653499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-008-0083-4     Document Type: Editorial

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