Global concerns about the consequences of disasters, political violence, disease,
malnutrition, maltreatment, and other threats to human development and well‐being have …

Accumulating evidence from preclinical and clinical studies indicates that maternal
psychosocial stress and anxiety during pregnancy adversely affect child outcomes …

The burgeoning interest in the field of epigenetics has precipitated the need to develop
approaches to strengthen causal inference when considering the role of epigenetic …

The majority of environmental factors can not modify DNA sequence, but can influence the
epigenome. The mitotic stability of the epigenome and ability of environmental epigenetics …

Environmental exposures such as toxicants, nutrition and stress have been shown to
promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease susceptibility. Endocrine …

There is strong evidence from animal studies that prenatal stress has different effects on
male and female offspring. In general, although not always, prenatal stress increases …

Previous studies have shown a wide variety of environmental toxicants and abnormal
nutrition can promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease. More recently …

The gestational state is a period of particular vulnerability to diseases that affect maternal
and fetal health. Stress during gestation may represent a powerful influence on maternal …

An adverse early-life environment is associated with long-term disease consequences.
Adversity early in life is hypothesized to elicit developmental adaptations that serve to …

This paper argues that there is a revolution afoot in the developmental science of gene–
environment interplay. We summarize, for an audience of developmental researchers and …