Transgenerational epigenetics: Integrating soma to germline communication with gametic inheritance

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 163, Issue , 2017, Pages 15-22

  Sharma, Abhay ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Exosomes; Extracellular vesicles; Germline; Soma

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; GAMETE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXOSOMES; GERM CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 85009433905     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.12.015     Document Type: Review

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