Epigenetic vulnerability and the environmental influence on health

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 238, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 859-865

  Gomes, Marcus Vinicius de Matos ^a   Pelosi, Gislaine Garcia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NORTE DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; environmental influence on health; Epigenetics; histone modification

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1C; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84884504366     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370213490630     Document Type: Article

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