Pregnant women's cognitive appraisal of a natural disaster affects DNA methylation in their children 13 years later: Project Ice Storm

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Cao Lei, L ^a,b   Elgbeili, G ^b   Massart, R ^a   Laplante, D P ^b   Szyf, M ^a   King, S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOTOXIN; ICE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; COGNITION; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL MATERNAL STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; CLIMATE; COMPLICATION; DISASTER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; COGNITION; DISASTERS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUEBEC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84927759279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.13     Document Type: Article

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