Neurobiological disease etiology and inheritance: An epigenetic perspective

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 94-101

  Saab, Bechara J ^a   Mansuy, Isabelle M ^a  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diseases; Epigenetics; Inheritance; Neurobiology

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; HISTONE; NONAGOUTI PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

DISEASES; EPIGENETICS; INHERITANCE; NEUROBIOLOGY;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HISTONES; MICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROBIOLOGY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896498559     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.089995     Document Type: Review

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