A paternal environmental legacy: Evidence for epigenetic inheritance through the male germ line

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 359-371

  Soubry, Adelheid ^a   Hoyo, Cathrine ^b   Jirtle, Randy L ^c,d   Murphy, Susan K ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Belgium)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); Environment; Epigenetics; Imprinted genes; Offspring; Paternal exposures; Spermatogenesis; Transgenerational effects

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LIFESTYLE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATERNALISM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREPUBERTY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE (DOHAD); ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENETICS; IMPRINTED GENES; OFFSPRING; PATERNAL EXPOSURES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS;

ANIMALS; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OBESITY; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84896722288     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300113     Document Type: Article

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