Early life socioeconomic factors and genomic DNA methylation in mid-life

Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-27

  Tehranifar, Parisa ^a,b   Wu, Hui Chen ^a   Fan, Xiaozhou ^a   Flom, Julie D ^a   Ferris, Jennifer S ^a   Cho, Yoon Hee ^a   Gonzalez, Karina ^a   Santella, Regina M ^a,b   Terry, Mary Beth ^a,b  

^a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult genomic DNA methylation; Birth cohort; Early life; Lifecourse; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT EDUCATION; ALU GENE; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LINE 1 GENE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAT2 GENE; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84872021646     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.22989     Document Type: Article

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