Prenatal and perinatal environmental influences on the human fetal and placental epigenome

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 716-726

  Hogg, K ^a   Price, E M ^a,b   Hanna, C W ^a   Robinson, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME, HUMAN; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STEROIDS;

EID: 84869507003     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2012.141     Document Type: Article

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