Moderate prenatal stress may buffer the impact of Superstorm Sandy on placental genes: Stress in Pregnancy (SIP) Study.

The placenta plays a central role in the epigenetic programming of neurodevelopment by prenatal stress (PS), but this pathway is not fully understood. It difficult to study in humans because the conditions for intense, traumatic PS are almost impossible to create ethically. This study was able to ca...

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Main Authors: Wei Zhang, Jacob Ham, Qian Li, Maya A Deyssenroth, Luca Lambertini, Yonglin Huang, Kenji J Tsuchiya, Jia Chen, Yoko Nomura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226605