Molecular insights into transgenerational non-genetic inheritance of acquired behaviours

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 641-652

  Bohacek, Johannes ^a   Mansuy, Isabelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADDICTION; ANXIETY; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LONGEVITY; MALE; METABOLISM; NON GENETIC TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84944441098     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3964     Document Type: Review

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