Male germline transmits fetal alcohol epigenetic marks for multiple generations: A review

Addiction Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 23-34

  Sarkar, Dipak K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; fetal alcohol; male germline; proopiomelanocortin; stress hormone; transgenerational epigenetic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STRESS HORMONE;

ANXIETY; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MARKER GENE; NEOPLASM; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ONSET AGE; PARENT; POMC GENE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84957440194     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12186     Document Type: Review

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