Epigenetic modifications are among the most important mechanisms by which
environmental factors can influence early cellular differentiation and create new phenotypic …

Male obesity in reproductive-age men has nearly tripled in the past 30 y and coincides with
an increase in male infertility worldwide. There is now emerging evidence that male obesity …

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that can be transmitted through cell
divisions but cannot be explained by changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic …

Background: Evidence suggests that in utero exposure to undernutrition and overnutrition
might affect adiposity in later life. Epigenetic modification is suggested as a plausible …

Pre-pregnancy maternal obesity is associated with adverse offspring outcomes at birth and
later in life. Individual studies have shown that epigenetic modifications such as DNA …

The placenta is the primary interface between the fetus and mother and plays an important
role in maintaining fetal development and growth by facilitating the transfer of substrates and …

Organisms can change their physiological/behavioural traits to adapt and survive in
changed environments. However, whether these acquired traits can be inherited across …

Nutrition is the most important environmental factor that can influence early developmental
processes through regulation of epigenetic mechanisms during pregnancy and neonatal …

20 psychology (Lerner 2012), systems biology (Kitano 2002; Antony et al. 2012; Schadt and
Bjorkegren 2012), epigenetics (Egger et al. 2004), the developmental origins of chronic …

Environmental epigenetics is a 'hot'new field of post-genomic science investigating
mechanisms that influence how genes are expressed. It offers a dynamic and non-dualistic …