Environmental Epigenomics in Health and Disease

Part I. Fetal Origins of Adult Disease Susceptibility

1. Epigenetics: How Genes and Environment Interact
Randy L. Jirtle

2. Developmental Epigenomics and Metabolic Disease
Peter D. Gluckman, Felicia M. Low, Mark A. Hanson

3. Sculpting Our Future: Environmental Nudging of the Imprintome
Susan K. Murphy, Cathrine Hoyo

Part II. Epigenetics and Environmental Exposures

4. Complex Phenotypes: Epigenetic Manifestation of Environmental Exposures
Christopher Faulk, Dana C. Dolinoy

5. Epigenetic Effects of Ionizing Radiation
Olga Kovalchuk

6. The Intersection of Genetics and Epigenetics: Reactivation of Mammalian LINE-1 Retrotransposons by Environmental Injury
Kenneth S. Ramos, Ivo Teneng, Diego E. Montoya-Durango, Pasano Bojang, Mark T. Haeberle, Irma N. Ramos, Vilius Stribinskis, Ted Kalbfleisch

Part III. Epigenetics, Gene Regulation, and Stem Cells

7. Environmental Impact on Epigenetic Histone Language
John M. Denu

8. Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression: Function Follows Form
Aleksandra B. Adomas, Paul A. Wade

9. Epigenetics of Pluripotency
R. David Hawkins, Bing Ren

Part IV. Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance

10. Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Drosophila
Luan Wang, Xiangyi Lu, Douglas M. Ruden

11. Environmental Epigenetics and Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance
Michael K. Skinner

12. The Nature of Human Transgenerational Responses
Marcus E. Pembrey, Lars O. Bygren, Jean Golding

Keywords: Biomedicine, Human Genetics, Cancer Research, Gene Function