Epigenetics and brain evolution

Epigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-191

  Keverne, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain evolution; epigenetics; GABA ergic neurons; genomic imprinting; MeCp2; neocortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MATERNAL CARE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MAMMALS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79955128747     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.11.10     Document Type: Article

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