Associations Between Maternal Community Deprivation and Infant DNA Methylation of the SLC6A4 Gene

Associations Between Maternal Community Deprivation and Infant DNA Methylation of the SLC6A4 Gene

Introduction: Poverty is negatively associated with health and developmental outcomes. DNA methylation (DNAm) has been proposed as a mechanism that underlies the association between adversity experienced by mothers in poverty and health and developmental outcomes in their offspring. Previous studies...

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Main Authors: Kelly DeLano, Alonzo T. Folger, Lili Ding, Hong Ji, Kimberly Yolton, Robert T. Ammerman, Judith B. Van Ginkel, Katherine A. Bowers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
community
deprivation
epigenetics (DNA methylation
histone modifications)
poverty & inequality
prenatal
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.557195/full

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