Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance requires a much deeper analysis

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 269-270

  Sharma, Abhay ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetic memory; Exosome; Histone modification; Noncoding RNA; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE TRANSFER; GERM CELL; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HEREDITY; MALE;

MAMMALIA;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84929049580     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2015.02.010     Document Type: Letter

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