Hypothesis: The female excess in cranial neural tube defects reflects an epigenetic drag of the inactivating x chromosome on the molecular mechanisms of neural fold elevation

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 849-855

  Juriloff, Diana M ^a   Harris, Muriel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Epigenetic; Exencephaly; Female; Neural tube defect; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; SEX HORMONE;

ANENCEPHALUS; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXENCEPHALY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEX RATIO; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SKULL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84867683395     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23036     Document Type: Article

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