The epigenetic basis of adaptation and responses to environmental change: Perspective on human reproduction

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 753, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-117

  Fernández, Agustín F ^a   Toraño, Estela García ^a   Urdinguio, Rocío González ^a   Lana, Abel Gayo ^b   Fernández, Ignacio Arnott ^c   Fraga, Mario F ^a,d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^b Embryology   (Spain)

^c FIV4 Instituto de Reproducción Humana   (Spain)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Environmental epigenetics; Imprinting; Infertility; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; TEMOZOLOMIDE; DNA; HISTONE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; ADAPTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMLINE STEM CELL; PROGENY;

EID: 84958955302     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-820-2_6     Document Type: Review

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