Methylation matters in child development: Toward developmental behavioral epigenetics

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-310

  van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a   Ebstein, Richard P ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attachment; Child development; Methylation; Nurture; Parenting; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855123978     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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