Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in health and disease

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-279

  Whitelaw, Nadia C ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 52949126723     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.07.001     Document Type: Review

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