Overview
- Discusses the correlation between environmental influences and brain development, neurological disorders, obesity and cancer
- Reviews epigenetic processes that occur in human embryonic stem cells, as well as in differentiating cells and organs such as the brain, discussing autism, schizophrenia and even sexual dimorphism in the developing brains of males and females
- Includes a chapter on legal and ethical implications of epigenetics?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Epigenetics and Human Health (EHH)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Epigenetic Programming of the Brain
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Epigenetics and Neurological Disorders
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Epigenetics, Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity
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Epigenetics and Cancer
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Epigenetics and the Law
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Epigenomics in Health and Disease
Book Subtitle: Epigenetics and Complex Diseases
Editors: Randy L. Jirtle, Frederick L. Tyson
Series Title: Epigenetics and Human Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36827-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36826-4Published: 28 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43595-9Published: 23 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36827-1Published: 13 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-2262
Series E-ISSN: 2191-2270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 339
Topics: Human Genetics, Cancer Research, Neurosciences