Transgenerational epigenetics: The role of maternal effects in cardiovascular development

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-51

  Ho, Dao H ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MORPHOGENESIS; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84903591274     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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