Elusive inheritance: Transgenerational effects and epigenetic inheritance in human environmental disease

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 44-54

  Martos, Suzanne N ^a   Tang, Wan yee ^a   Wang, Zhibin ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Epigenetic; Mammals; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84930541615     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.02.011     Document Type: Review

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