Environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of phenotype and disease

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 3-8

  Guerrero Bosagna, Carlos ^a   Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Environmental exposures; Epigenetics; Reproduction; Systems biology; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETIC TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84857797150     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.10.004     Document Type: Review

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