Breast cancer and the importance of early life nutrition

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 159, Issue , 2014, Pages 269-285

  Lillycrop, Karen A ^a   Burdge, Graham C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early life; Epigenetics; Nutrition; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; TRACE ELEMENT; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; DISEASE MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INFANT NUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; BREAST NEOPLASMS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84897158657     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38007-5_16     Document Type: Article

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