Epigenetics: The link between nature and nurture

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 753-764

  Tammen, Stephanie A ^a,b   Friso, Simonetta ^c   Choi, Sang Woon ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; DNA methylation; Environment; Epigenetics; Histone modification; microRNA; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICRORNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEMETHYLATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME MECHANISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIGENOMICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84878107240     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.07.018     Document Type: Review

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