Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) is the study of how the early life
environment can impact the risk of chronic diseases from childhood to adulthood and the …

Epigenetic phenomena in animals and plants are mediated by DNA methylation and stable
chromatin modifications. There has been considerable interest in whether environmental …

Many biologists are calling for an'extended evolutionary synthesis' that would'modernize the
modern synthesis' of evolution. Biological information is typically considered as being …

Nutritional epigenetics seeks to explain the effects of nutrition on gene expression. For
social science, it is an area of life science whose analysis reveals a concentrated form of a …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disease of unknown etiology that leads
to progressive joint destruction and ultimately to disability. RA affects as much as 1% of the …

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic environmental toxin widely used in the production of
plastics and ubiquitous human exposure to this chemical has been proposed to be a …

Multiple proven and potential risk factors for the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
have been identified, and represent interactions between genes and the environment …

In the past decades, the type of chemicals has gradually increased all over the world, and
many of these chemicals may have a potentially toxic effect on human health. The zebrafish …

Epigenetics is the study of mitotically or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that
occur without a change in the DNA sequence. Interestingly, epigenetic changes can be …

Epigenetic marks in an organism can be altered by environmental factors throughout life.
Although changes in the epigenetic code can be positive, some are associated with severe …