Epigenetics, brain, behavior, and the environment

Hormones

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-50

  Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Environmental influences; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

DNA; VINCLOZOLIN;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77950435414     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1251     Document Type: Review

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