Entangled lives: Implications of the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis for bioarchaeology and the life course

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 530-540

  Gowland, Rebecca L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barker hypothesis; epigenetics; infancy; paleopathology

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WELLBEING; ANIMAL; DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH; INFANT; NEWBORN; PALEOPATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DISEASE; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84983133933     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22820     Document Type: Article

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