An unbiased assessment of the role of imprinted genes in an intergenerational model of developmental programming

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Radford, Elizabeth J ^a   Isganaitis, Elvira ^b   Jimenez Chillaron, Josep ^b   Schroeder, Joshua ^b   Molla, Michael ^b   Andrews, Simon ^c   Didier, Nathalie ^d   Charalambous, Marika ^a   McEwen, Kirsten ^a   Marazzi, Giovanna ^d   Sassoon, David ^d   Patti, Mary Elizabeth ^b   Ferguson Smith, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETAL MALNUTRITION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUTRITIONAL TOLERANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84860593648     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002605     Document Type: Article

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