Nutrition, Epigenetics and Health

Bys: Graham Burdge and Karen Lillycrop

Epigenetics is emerging as an important factor in risk of diseases of global importance including obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Unlike gene polymorphisms which have been the focus of understanding the role of inherited disease susceptibility for some time, epigenetic can be modified by environmental factors, in particular nutrition. Thus research into the role of epigenetics in disease has substantial potential for explaining the impact...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813143304
• ISBN13: 9789813143302
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"