Paternal chronic colitis causes epigenetic inheritance of susceptibility to colitis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tschurtschenthaler, Markus ^a,b   Kachroo, Priyadarshini ^c   Heinsen, Femke Anouska ^c   Adolph, Timon Erik ^a,b   Rühlemann, Malte Christoph ^c   Klughammer, Johanna ^d   Offner, Felix Albert ^e   Ammerpohl, Ole ^c   Krueger, Felix ^f   Smallwood, Sébastien ^f   Szymczak, Silke ^c   Kaser, Arthur ^a   Franke, Andre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL FELDKIRCH   (Austria)

^f BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COLITIS; DISEASE MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MICE;

EID: 84983356836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31640     Document Type: Article

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