Disputing Lamarckian epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CHOLESTEROL; DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VINCLOZOLIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL MATURATION; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LAMARCKIAN INHERITANCE; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RNA PURIFICATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOUSE;

LAMARCKIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE;

EID: 84935895194     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0626-0     Document Type: Article

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