We are what we eat. The link between diet, evolution and non-genetic inheritance

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 413-415

  Hunter, Philip ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA; INSULIN; LINOLEIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA MODIFICATION; EATING HABIT; EPIDEMIC; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DIET; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENES; HUMANS;

EID: 43049124175     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.61     Document Type: Article

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