Genetic basis, nutritional challenges and adaptive responses in the prenatal origin of obesity and type-2 diabetes

Current Diabetes Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-154

  Gonzalez Bulnes, Antonio ^a   Ovilo, Cristina ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intrauterine growth retardation; Nutrition; Obesity; Postnatal growth; Prenatal programming; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALNUTRITION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARVATION; TIME; UTERUS;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84857751360     PISSN: 15733998     EISSN: 18756417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339912799424537     Document Type: Review

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