Role of epigenetics in developmental biology and transgenerational inheritance

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-55

  Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Differentiation; Disease etiology; Environment; Epigenetics; Systems biology; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INHERITANCE; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEREDITY; HUMANS;

EID: 79952795854     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20199     Document Type: Review

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