Environmental Epigenomics in Health and Disease : Epigenetics and Complex Diseases /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Jirtle, Randy L. (Editor ), Tyson, Frederick L. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Epigenetics and Human Health,
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Epigenetic programming of the brain
  • Epigenetics and maternal brain evolution
  • Social environment and DNA methylation:  A mechanism for linking nurture and nature
  • Sex differences in epigenetic programming of brain differentiation: Implications for mental health and disease
  • Epigenetics and neurological disorders
  • Phenotypic plasticity, pleiotropy, and the growth-first theory of imprinting
  • The imprinted brain: How genes set the balance between autism and psychosis
  • Epigenetics at the interface of genetics and environmental factors in autism
  • Epigenomic and non-coding  RNA regulation in addictive processes
  • Epigenetic therapies in neurological diseases
  • Epigenetics, nutrition, diabetes, and obesity
  • Nutrition, histone epigenetic marks, and disease
  • Chromatin switching and gene dynamics associated with type 2 diabetes
  • Developmental epigenetic programming in diabetes and obesity
  • Epigenetics and cancer
  • Developmental reprogramming by environmental estrogens: How early life exposures affect cancer risk in adulthood.- Human cancer epigenetics
  • Epigenetics and the law
  • Legal and ethical implications of epigenetics
  • Subject index. .