Epigenetics in childhood health and disease

Molecular Mechanisms and Physiology of Disease: Implications for Epigenetics and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-62

  Hussain, Naveed ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Imprinted genes; Infant; microRNA; Newborn; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929889951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0706-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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