The role of diet and exercise in the transgenerational epigenetic landscape of T2DM

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 441-451

  Barrès, Romain ^a   Zierath, Juleen R ^a,b  

^a Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; EPIGENETICS; EXERCISE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROLE PLAYING;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; ROLE;

EID: 84975127135     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.87     Document Type: Review

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