Article
Animal models of epigenetic inheritance.
Seminars in reproductive medicine - 1 Sept 2009
Bocock Philip N, Aagaard-Tillery Kjersti M
Abstract excerpt
Although genomic DNA is the template of our heredity, it is the coordination and regulation of its expression that results in the wide complexity and diversity seen among organisms. In recent years, an emerging body of evidence has focused on the role of epigenetics as one mechanism by which gene...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Adult
- Animals
- Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly
- DNA Methylation
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Female
- Fetal Nutrition Disorders
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Variation
- Genomic Imprinting
- Histones
- Humans
- Infant Nutrition Disorders
- Infant, Newborn
- Inheritance Patterns
- Models, Animal
