Article
[Early determinants of health and disease: epigenetics and environment].
Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine - 1 Mar 2011
Junien Claudine
Abstract excerpt
Several studies of the developmental origins of health and disease and metabolic programming have identified links between early nutrition, epigenetic processes and long-term illness. The ways in which epigenetic modifications fix the effects of early environmental events, leading to sustained responses to transient stimuli, modified gene expression patterns and altered phenotypes in later life, is a topic of...
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