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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 354, Issue 1-2, Pages 3-8Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.10.004
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Epigenetics; Transgenerational; Environmental exposures; Reproduction; Systems biology; Development
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [R01 ES012974-07, R01 ES012974] Funding Source: Medline
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Environmental epigenetics has an important role in regulating phenotype formation or disease etiology. The ability of environmental factors and exposures early in life to alter somatic cell epigenomes and subsequent development is a critical factor in how environment affects biology. Environmental epigenetics provides a molecular mechanism to explain long term effects of environment on the development of altered phenotypes and emergent properties, which the genetic determinism paradigm cannot. When environmental factors permanently alter the germ line epigenome, then epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of these environmentally altered phenotypes and diseases can occur. This environmental epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of phenotype and disease is reviewed with a systems biology perspective. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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