Transcriptomic data reanalysis allows for a contribution of embryonic transcriptional change-induced gene expression reprogramming in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Environmental Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Sharma, Abhay ^a  

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

Author keywords

bioinformatics; embryonic development; epigenetic inheritance; offspring phenotype; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019271213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvw009     Document Type: Article

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