Epigenetics and male reproduction: The consequences of paternal lifestyle on fertility, embryo development, and children lifetime health

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Stuppia, Liborio ^a   Franzago, Marica ^a   Ballerini, Patrizia ^a   Gatta, Valentina ^a   Antonucci, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Gametogenesis; Male infertility; Transgenerational effect

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDREN LIFETIME HEALTH; CPG ISLAND; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; IONIZING RADIATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MALE REPRODUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL DIET; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL LIFESTYLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPERM MORPHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS FAILURE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECT; WHOLE GENOME BISULFITE SEQUENCING;

EID: 84946594785     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0155-4     Document Type: Review

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