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Examining the joint contribution of placental NR3C1 and HSD11B2 methylation for infant neurobehavior.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Feb 2015
Appleton Allison A, Lester Barry M, Armstrong David A, Lesseur Corina, Marsit Carmen J
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Infant neurobehavior, a potential sentinel of future mental and behavioral morbidity characterized in part by reflex symmetry, excitability and habituation to stimuli, is influenced by aspects of the intrauterine environment partially through epigenetic alterations of genes involved in the stress response. DNA methylation of two related cortisol response genes, the glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1), a nuclear...
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