Lessons from the one-carbon metabolism: Passing it along to the next generation

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 637-643

  Padmanabhan, Nisha ^a   Watson, Erica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; fetal programming; folate metabolism; one carbon metabolism; placenta; transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; FOLIC ACID; METHIONINE; METHYL GROUP;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; FOLATE METABOLISM; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INHERITANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; ONE CARBON METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION; FETAL PROGRAMMING; FOLATE METABOLISM; ONE-CARBON METABOLISM; PLACENTA; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; ONE-CARBON GROUP TRANSFERASES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84889103132     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.09.008     Document Type: Review

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