Developmental Plasticity, Epigenetics and Human Health

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 650-665

  Low, Felicia M ^a   Gluckman, Peter D ^a,b   Hanson, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Developmental plasticity; Disease; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Mismatch

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870854475     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9157-0     Document Type: Article

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