Is Lamarckian evolution relevant to medicine?

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Handel, Adam E ^a,b   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; REVIEW; TIME;

LAMARCKIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952035328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-11-73     Document Type: Article

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