Darwin's Pangenesis and molecular medicine

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 506-508

  Liu, Yongsheng ^a   Li, Xiuju ^a,b  

^a HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circulating nucleic acids; Darwin's Pangenesis; Inheritance of acquired characteristics; Oncogenesis; Prions; Regenerative medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

CANCER RISK; DARWIN PANGENESIS; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; HEREDITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PRION DISEASES; SELECTION, GENETIC; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865608774     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2012.07.002     Document Type: Note

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