Diet, nutrition and modulation of genomic expression in fetal origins of adult disease

Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 4-6, 2010, Pages 192-208

  Jackson, Alan A ^a,b   Burdge, Graham C ^a   Lillicrop, Karen A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; DIET; FETUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 79953849829     PISSN: 16616499     EISSN: 16616758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324356     Document Type: Article

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