Nutrition, epigenetics, and developmental plasticity: Implications for understanding human disease

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue , 2010, Pages 315-339

  Burdge, Graham C ^a   Lillycrop, Karen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardio metabolic disease; DNA methylation; fetal development; folate

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; FOLIC ACID; HISTONE;

BIOGENESIS; COVALENT BOND; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; WEANING; ADAPTATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLIC DISEASES; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955627637     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.012809.104751     Document Type: Review

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