3rd college of paediatrics and child health lecture - The past, the present and the shape of things to come...

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 429-434

  Loke, Kah Yin ^a   Lin, Jeremy B Y ^a   Mabel, Deurenberg Yap ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Epigenetics; Height; Weight

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PEDIATRICS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 45249109997     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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