What is the evidence in humans that DNA methylation changes link events in utero and later life disease?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 814-822

  Reynolds, Rebecca M ^a   Jacobsen, Greta H ^a   Drake, Amanda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLINE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA; SOMATOMEDIN B; WNT2 PROTEIN;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LONG TERM CARE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIRTH WEIGHT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBESITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84876517601     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12164     Document Type: Review

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