Exploring the complexity of intellectual disability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Chokroborty Hoque, Aniruddho ^a   Alberry, Bonnie ^a   Singh, Shiva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Epigenetics; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Gene expression; Intellectual disability; Mouse models; Neurodevelopment; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929911064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00090     Document Type: Review

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