Maternal prenatal depression and epigenetic age deceleration: testing potentially confounding effects of prenatal stress and SSRI use

BG McKenna, CL Hendrix, PA Brennan, AK Smith… - Epigenetics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies suggest epigenetic alterations may contribute to the association between
maternal prenatal depression and adverse offspring outcomes. Developmental researchers …

The epigenetic clock at birth: associations with maternal antenatal depression and child psychiatric problems

A Suarez, J Lahti, D Czamara, M Lahti-Pulkkinen… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Maternal antenatal depression may compromise the fetal developmental milieu
and contribute to individual differences in aging and disease trajectories in later life. We …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal prenatal anxiety and the fetal origins of epigenetic aging

MG McGill, I Pokhvisneva, AS Clappison… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The fetal origins of mental health is a well-established framework that currently
lacks a robust index of the biological embedding of prenatal adversity. The Pediatric-Buccal …

Cumulative stress, PTSD, and emotion dysregulation during pregnancy and epigenetic age acceleration in Hispanic mothers and their newborn infants

S Katrinli, AK Smith, SS Drury, J Covault, JD Ford… - Epigenetics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pregnancy can exacerbate or prompt the onset of stress-related disorders, such as post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is associated with heightened stress responsivity …

[PDF][PDF] Fetal sex-specific epigenetic associations with prenatal maternal depressive symptoms

MZL Kee, AL Teh, A Clappison, I Pokhvisneva… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Prenatal maternal mental health is a global health challenge with poorly defined biological
mechanisms. We used maternal blood samples collected during the second trimester from a …

[HTML][HTML] Mother's childhood adversity is associated with accelerated epigenetic aging in pregnancy and in male newborns

CK Dye, H Wu, C Monk, DW Belsky, D Alschuler, S Lee… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are correlated with accelerated
epigenetic aging, but it is not clear whether altered epigenetic aging from childhood …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal psychosocial risk factors and child gestational epigenetic age in a South African birth cohort study

N Koen, MJ Jones, RT Nhapi, MT Lake… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal age at delivery is associated with an epigenetic signature in both newborns and adults

CA Markunas, AJ Wilcox, Z Xu, BR Joubert, S Harlid… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Offspring of older mothers are at increased risk of adverse birth outcomes, childhood
cancers, type 1 diabetes, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The underlying biologic …

Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of prenatal maternal stressful life events and newborn DNA methylation

A Kotsakis Ruehlmann, S Sammallahti… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Prenatal maternal stressful life events are associated with adverse neurodevelopmental
outcomes in offspring. Biological mechanisms underlying these associations are largely …

Linking prenatal maternal adversity to developmental outcomes in infants: the role of epigenetic pathways

C Monk, J Spicer, FA Champagne - Development and …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Prenatal exposure to maternal stress, anxiety, and depression can have lasting effects on
infant development with risk of psychopathology. Although the impact of prenatal maternal …