Obesity: Childhood obesity-methylate now, pay later?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 439-440

  Choudhury, Mahua ^a   Friedman, Jacob E ^a  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 8; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA;

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EPIGENETICS; FETUS (ANATOMY); HUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OBESITY; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA;

EID: 79960846183     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.102     Document Type: Short Survey

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