Sensitive periods in epigenetics: Bringing us closer to complex behavioral phenotypes

Epigenomics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 445-457

  Nagy, Corina ^a   Turecki, Gustavo ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromatin remodeling; complex behaviors; complex disorders; DNA methylation; early life adversity; suicide; therapeutic drugs

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; CHROMATIN; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; GAD1 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84865450581     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.12.37     Document Type: Review

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