Focus on: Epigenetics and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Alcohol Research and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-37

  Kobor, Michael S ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Conception; Epigenetics; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Gastrulation; Genetics; Maternal alcohol consumption; Preconception; Pregnancy; Prenatal alcohol exposure; Teratogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; PREGNANCY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79961007839     PISSN: 15357414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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