Epigenetic medicine and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Epigenomics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-86

  Resendiz, Marisol ^a   Chen, Yuanyuan ^a   Öztürk, Nail C ^a,b   Zhou, Feng C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; developmental syndromes; DNA methylation; fetal alcohol syndrome; late onset disease; transgenerational epigenetics

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINE; CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; FOLIC ACID; METHIONINE; METHYLCYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84874036221     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.12.80     Document Type: Review

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