Article
The epigenome: archive of the prenatal environment.
Epigenetics - 16 Nov 2009
Heijmans Bastiaan T, Tobi Elmar W, Lumey L H, Slagboom P Eline
Abstract excerpt
World-wide, research initiatives are in progress to establish the role of the epigenome in human disease. Empirical data are still scarce, but particularly studies investigating how the epigenome links early developmental and adult disease may rapidly change this situation. Recently, several reports showed that prenatal environmental conditions are associated with persistent changes of the human epigenome. The...
Topics
- Animals
- Environment
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Female
- Genome
- Humans
- Maternal Exposure
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
- Starvation