Lifestyle, pregnancy and epigenetic effects

Epigenomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-102

  Barua, Subit ^a   Junaid, Mohammed A ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; epigenetics; lifestyle; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL OBESITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UTERUS; ANIMAL; CHILD; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOUSE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SMOKING;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; RODENTIA;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CHILD; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SMOKING;

EID: 84923233224     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.14.71     Document Type: Review

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