Transgenerational Epigenetics

Handbook of Epigenetics: The New Molecular and Medical Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 391-403

  Curley, James P ^a   Mashoodh, Rahia ^a   Champagne, Frances A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-375709-8.00024-1     Document Type: Chapter

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