The role of nutrition in disease-linked epigenetic inheritance

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/635510

Funding Status
Closed

Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the .

Funded Activity Summary

This project aims to investigate one mechanism behind fetal programming, in which a suboptimal in utero environment can affect health of offspring in later life. We and others have recently shown that fetal programming can be caused by changes in the way genes behave, and we will examine how many genes are affected by these changes. We will ask whether the changes can increase in frequency with long-term exposure to nutritional stress, and become entrenched within the population.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $485,412.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

There are no SEO codes available for this funding activity

Other Keywords

DNA methylation | environmental effects on epigenetics | epigenetic inheritance | epigenetics | fetal programming | maternal nutrition | metabolic disease | whole-genome methylation and epigenomics

Related Links