Epigenetic Inheritance: Both Mitotic and Meiotic

Nutrition in Epigenetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 87-103

  Kaminen Ahola, Nina J ^a   Ahola, Arttu I ^a,b   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Centromeres and Telomeres; Diethylstilbestrol (DES); Environment; Meiotic epigenetic inheritance; Position effect variegation (PEV); Soft Inheritance; Stochastic Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885096276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959824.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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