Fetal alcohol and the right to be born healthy

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Singh, Shiva M ^a   Laufer, Benjamin I ^a   Kapalanga, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATERNAL STRESS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84917674005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00356     Document Type: Article

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