Transgenerational inheritance of metabolic disease

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-140

  Stegemann, Rachel ^a   Buchner, David A ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Epigenome; Intergenerational inheritance; Metabolism; Obesity; Transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CHOLINE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DNA; FOLIC ACID; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HISTONE; METHIONINE; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PYRIDOXINE; RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OBESITY; PIG; RAT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MICE; OBESITY; RATS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84948107743     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2015.04.007     Document Type: Review

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