The epigenetic impacts of social stress: how does social adversity become biologically embedded?

VT Cunliffe - Epigenomics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in the processes through which social stressors
erode health in humans and other animals. Here I review progress in elucidating the …

How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review

L Evans, M Engelman, A Mikulas, K Malecki - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective We systematically review the literature on social epigenetics, examining how
empirical research to date has conceptualized and operationalized social determinants of …

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 …

Socioeconomic status, preeclampsia risk and gestational length in black and white women

KM Ross, C Dunkel Schetter, MR McLemore… - Journal of racial and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Higher socioeconomic status (SES) has less impact on cardio-metabolic
disease and preterm birth risk among Black women compared to White women, an effect …

Associations between indicators of socioeconomic position and DNA methylation: a scoping review

J Cerutti, AA Lussier, Y Zhu, J Liu, EC Dunn - Clinical Epigenetics, 2021 - Springer
Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a major determinant of health across the life
course. Yet, little is known about the biological mechanisms explaining this relationship. One …

Introduction to the special section on epigenetics

BM Lester, E Conradt, C Marsit - Child Development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetics provides the opportunity to revolutionize our understanding of the role of
genetics and the environment in explaining human behavior, although the use of …

From forensic epigenetics to forensic epigenomics: broadening DNA investigative intelligence

A Vidaki, M Kayser - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Human genetic variation is a major resource in forensics, but does not allow all forensically
relevant questions to be answered. Some questions may instead be addressable via …

Beyond the genome—Towards an epigenetic understanding of handedness ontogenesis

J Schmitz, GAS Metz, O Güntürkün… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hemispheric asymmetries represent one of the major organizational principles in vertebrate
neurobiology, but their molecular determinants are not well understood. For handedness …

An epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis of educational attainment

R Karlsson Linnér, RE Marioni, CA Rietveld… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The epigenome is associated with biological factors, such as disease status, and
environmental factors, such as smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index …

Epigenome-wide DNA methylation in placentas from preterm infants: association with maternal socioeconomic status

HP Santos Jr, A Bhattacharya, EM Martin, K Addo… - Epigenetics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study evaluated the hypothesis that prenatal maternal socioeconomic status (SES)
adversity is associated with DNA methylation in the placenta. SES adversity was defined by …