dc.contributor.author |
Low, Felicia |
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dc.contributor.author |
Gluckman, Peter |
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dc.contributor.author |
Hanson, MA |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
England |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-03-04T03:19:47Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011-06 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Epigenomics, 2011, 3 (3), pp. 279 - 294 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1750-1911 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/24744 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The importance of developmental factors in influencing the risk of later-life disease has a strong evidence base derived from multiple epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies in animals and humans. During early life, an organism is able to adjust its phenotypic development in response to environmental cues. Such developmentally plastic responses evolved as a fitness-maximizing strategy to cope with variable environments. There are now increasing data that these responses are, at least partially, underpinned by epigenetic mechanisms. A mismatch between the early and later-life environments may lead to inappropriate early life-course epigenomic changes that manifest in later life as increased vulnerability to disease. There is also growing evidence for the transgenerational transmission of epigenetic marks. This article reviews the evidence that susceptibility to metabolic and cardiovascular disease in humans is linked to changes in epigenetic marks induced by early-life environmental cues, and discusses the clinical, public health and therapeutic implications that arise. |
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dc.language |
Eng |
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dc.publisher |
Future Medicine Ltd |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Epigenomics |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1750-1911/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Developmental plasticity and epigenetic mechanisms underpinning metabolic and cardiovascular diseases |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.2217/epi.11.17 |
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pubs.issue |
3 |
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pubs.begin-page |
279 |
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pubs.volume |
3 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright:
Future Medicine Ltd |
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dc.identifier.pmid |
22122338 |
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pubs.end-page |
294 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Review |
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pubs.elements-id |
215238 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1750-192X |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2015-03-04 |
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pubs.dimensions-id |
22122338 |
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