Epigenetic inheritance of disease and disease risk

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 220-236

  Bohacek, Johannes ^a   Mansuy, Isabelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

epigenetic; germline; inheritance; transgenerational; transmission

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; HISTONE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; VINCLOZOLIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AUTISM; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEPRESSION; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOME; HERITABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAMMAL; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MENTAL DISORDERS; RISK; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84869089691     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.110     Document Type: Review

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