Using genomics for birth defects epidemiology: Can epigenetics cut the GxE gordian knot?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 986-989

  Friedman, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

BIRTH DEFECT; CPG ISLAND; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NORTH AMERICA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 83655169769     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.22875     Document Type: Editorial

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