Environmental Health and Long Non-coding RNAs

Current environmental health reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 178-187

  Karlsson, Oskar ^a,b   Baccarelli, Andrea A ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Disease; Epigenetics; LncRNA; Smoking; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 85015490233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21965412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-016-0092-1     Document Type: Review

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