The role of developmental plasticity and epigenetics in human health

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-18

  Gluckman, Peter D ^a,b   Hanson, Mark A ^c   Low, Felicia M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Epigenetics; Fitness; Metabolic disease; Mismatch; Obesity

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADAPTATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLIC DISEASES; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952792711     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20198     Document Type: Review

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