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The dynamic epigenome and its implications for behavioral interventions: a role for epigenetics to inform disorder prevention and health promotion.
Translational behavioral medicine - 1 Mar 2016
Szyf Moshe, Tang Yi-Yang, Hill Karl G, Musci Rashelle
Abstract excerpt
The emerging field of behavioral epigenetics is producing a growing body of evidence that early life experience and social exposure can alter the way by which genes are marked with DNA methylation. We hypothesize that changes in DNA methylation as well as other epigenetic markers could generate stable phenotypes. Early life adversity appears to result in altered DNA methylation of genes in the brain and...
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