Minireview: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: Focus on endocrine disrupting compounds

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2770-2780

  Rissman, Emilie F ^a   Adli, Mazhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS;

EID: 84904968654     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1123     Document Type: Review

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