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Early nutrition and epigenetic programming: chasing shadows.
Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care - 1 May 2010
Attig Linda, Gabory Anne, Junien Claudine
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The ways in which epigenetic modifications fix the effects of early environmental events, ensuring sustained responses to transient stimuli, which result into modified gene expression patterns and phenotypes later in life, is a topic of considerable interest. This review focuses on recently discovered mechanisms and calls into question prevailing views about the dynamics, positions and...
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