The epigenome as a target for heritable environmental disruptions of cellular function

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 9-15

  McCarrey, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Epimutations; Transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; HEALTH HAZARD; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84858270613     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.09.014     Document Type: Review

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