Maternal psychosocial risk factors and child gestational epigenetic age in a South African birth cohort study
Abstract Accelerated epigenetic aging relative to chronological age has been found to be associated with higher risk of mortality in adults. However, little is known about whether and how in utero exposures might shape child gestational epigenetic age (EA) at birth. We aimed to explore associations...
Main Authors: | Nastassja Koen, Meaghan J. Jones, Raymond T. Nhapi, Marilyn T. Lake, Kirsten A. Donald, Whitney Barnett, Nadia Hoffman, Julia L. MacIsaac, Alexander M. Morin, David T. S. Lin, Michael S. Kobor, Karestan C. Koenen, Heather J. Zar, Dan J. Stein |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-07-01
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Series: | Translational Psychiatry |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01434-3 |
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