The role of imprinted genes in fetal growth abnormalities

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 682-692

  Piedrahita, Jorge A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MALFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79961147541     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20795     Document Type: Review

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