Animal Models of Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects

Transgenerational Epigenetics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 123-145

  Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin rearrangement; Developmental origin of health and disease; DNA methylation; Endocrine disruptors; Environmental factors; Histone protein modifications; Lamarckian; Multigenerational; Nutrition; Rodents; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903258967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-405944-3.00011-8     Document Type: Chapter

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