What do you mean, “Epigenetic”?

Genetics

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 887-896

  Deans, Carrie ^a   Maggert, Keith A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Gene expression; Maternal effects; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; HERITABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84926513171     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.173492     Document Type: Article

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