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Maternal programming of steroid receptor expression and phenotype through DNA methylation in the rat.
Frontiers in neuroendocrinology - 1 Jan 2000
Szyf Moshe, Weaver Ian C G, Champagne Francis A, Diorio Josie, Meaney Michael J
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Increased levels of pup licking/grooming and arched-back nursing by rat mothers over the first week of life alter the epigenome at a glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in the hippocampus of the offspring. Differences in the DNA methylation pattern between the offspring of High and Low licking/grooming--arched-back mothers emerge over the first week of life, are reversed with cross-fostering, persist into...
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