Integrating early life experience, gene expression, brain development, and emergent phenotypes: unraveling the thread of nature via nurture.

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800222-3.00011-5

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Integrating early life experience, gene expression, brain development, and emergent phenotypes: unraveling the thread of nature via nurture.

Advances in genetics - 1 Jan 2014

Weaver Ian C G

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Adaptation to environmental changes is based on the perpetual generation of new phenotypes. Modern biology has focused on the role of epigenetic mechanisms in facilitating the adaptation of organisms to changing environments through alterations in gene expression. Inherited and/or acquired epigen...

Topics

Adaptation, Physiological
Animals
Brain
Environment
Epigenesis, Genetic
Gene Expression
Humans
Mental Disorders
Phenotype

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