A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: candidate gene and epigenome-wide approaches

SH Parade, L Huffhines, TE Daniels, LR Stroud… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for chronic and severe mental and physical
health problems across the lifespan. Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that …

Adverse childhood events and health biomarkers: a systematic review

S Soares, V Rocha, M Kelly-Irving, S Stringhini… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: This systematic review aimed to summarize evidence reporting epigenetic
and/or neuro-immuno-endocrine embedding of adverse childhood events (ACEs) in …

The behavioural constellation of deprivation: Causes and consequences

GV Pepper, D Nettle - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: results from a prospective, longitudinal study

EC Dunn, TW Soare, Y Zhu, AJ Simpkin… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to early-life adversity is known to predict DNA methylation (DNAm)
patterns that may be related to psychiatric risk. However, few studies have investigated …

Analysis of DNA methylation in young people: limited evidence for an association between victimization stress and epigenetic variation in blood

SJ Marzi, K Sugden, L Arseneault… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: DNA methylation has been proposed as an epigenetic mechanism by which early-
life experiences become “embedded” in the genome and alter transcriptional processes to …

Annual Research Review: DNA methylation as a mediator in the association between risk exposure and child and adolescent psychopathology

ED Barker, E Walton, CAM Cecil - Journal of Child Psychology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) is a potential mechanism for propagating the effects
of environmental exposures on child and adolescent mental health. In recent years, this field …

Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood

TW McDade, C Ryan, MJ Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic inflammation contributes to a wide range of human diseases, and environments in
infancy and childhood are important determinants of inflammatory phenotypes. The …

Epigenetic correlates of neonatal contact in humans

SR Moore, LM McEwen, J Quirt, A Morin… - Development and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Animal models of early postnatal mother–infant interactions have highlighted the importance
of tactile contact for biobehavioral outcomes via the modification of DNA methylation …

DNA methylation as a predictor of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

AA Lussier, AM Morin, JL MacIsaac, J Salmon… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Background Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a developmental disorder that
manifests through a range of cognitive, adaptive, physiological, and neurobiological deficits …

An investigation of child maltreatment and epigenetic mechanisms of mental and physical health risk

D Cicchetti, S Hetzel, FA Rogosch… - Development and …, 2016 - cambridge.org
In the present investigation, differential methylation analyses of the whole genome were
conducted among a sample of 548 school-aged low-income children (47.8% female, 67.7 …