Associations between DNA methylation of a glucocorticoid receptor promoter and acute stress responses in a large healthy adult population are largely explained by lifestyle and educational differences

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 782-788

  de Rooij, Susanne R ^a   Costello, Paula M ^b   Veenendaal, Marjolein V E ^a   Lillycrop, Karen A ^b   Gluckman, Peter D ^c   Hanson, Mark A ^b   Painter, Rebecca C ^a   Roseboom, Tessa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cortisol; Epigenetic; Glucocorticoid receptor; Heart rate; Human; Methylation; Perceived stress; Stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA METHYLATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PPAR ALPHA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STARVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84859834112     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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