Childhood adversity and epigenetic modulation of the leukocyte glucocorticoid receptor: Preliminary findings in healthy adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tyrka, Audrey R ^a,b   Price, Lawrence H ^a,b   Marsit, Carmen ^c   Walters, Oakland C ^a   Carpenter, Linda L ^a,b  

^a BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NR3C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NR3C1 GENE; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HEALTH; LEUKOCYTE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

RODENTIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CPG ISLANDS; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856277610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030148     Document Type: Article

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