Models of Intergenerational and Transgenerational Transmission of Risk for Psychopathology in Mice

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 219-231

  Klengel, Torsten ^a,b   Dias, Brian G ^b   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,b,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOUSE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84949558414     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.249     Document Type: Review

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