Epigenetics: Linking social and environmental exposures to preterm birth

Pediatric Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 136-140

  Burris, Heather H ^a,b   Baccarelli, Andrea A ^b   Wright, Robert O ^c   Wright, Rosalind J ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN RELATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84956893409     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2015.191     Document Type: Review

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