Lamarckian evolution explains human brain evolution and psychiatric disorders

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Barry, Guy ^a  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

de novo mutations; Lamarckian inheritance; Pangenesis; Psychiatric disease; Small non coding RNA; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AUTISM; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; BODY REGIONS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; HERITABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPORT VESICLE;

EID: 84901818529     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00224     Document Type: Note

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