Obesity: Paternal obesity - A risk factor for autism?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 389-390

  Murphy, Susan K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; HISTONE; PESTICIDE; TOBACCO SMOKE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL OBESITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; PATERNAL OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; BODY MASS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPLICATION; FATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; OBESITY; PRECONCEPTION CARE;

EID: 84903188872     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.81     Document Type: Article

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