Parental programming: How can we improve study design to discern the molecular mechanisms?

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 787-793

  Lecomte, Virginie ^a   Youngson, Neil A ^a   Maloney, Christopher A ^a   Morris, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Maternal; Metabolic disease; Obesity; Paternal; Programming; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

DNA; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FATHER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

EPIGENETICS; MATERNAL; METABOLIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PATERNAL; PROGRAMMING; TRANSGENERATIONAL;

ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLIC DISEASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84881612877     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300051     Document Type: Article

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