Epigenetic mechanisms in fetal origins of health and disease

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 622-632

  Osborne Majnik, Amber ^a   Fu, Qi ^a   Lane, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese famine; environmental epigenetics; fetal origins of disease; glucocorticoid receptor; personalized medicine; racial disparity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA;

CHINESE; CPG ISLAND; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISTONE CODE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUNGER; LIFESTYLE; LIGAND BINDING; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUTRITION; OCCUPATION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RACE; REVIEW; SANITATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICRORNAS; NUCLEOSOMES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, LONG NONCODING; STARVATION;

EID: 84882452083     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e31829cb99a     Document Type: Review

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