Epigenetics and obesity: The devil is in the details

BMC Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Franks, Paul W ^a,b   Ling, Charlotte ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE X; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; CPG ISLAND; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; OBESITY;

EID: 78650272670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-8-88     Document Type: Note

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