Unravelling the complex mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-107

  Blake, Georgina ET ^a   Watson, Erica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TOXIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HISTONE; TRANSPOSON;

DIET; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GAMETE; GENE MUTATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84974691667     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.06.008     Document Type: Review

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