Epigenetic alterations following early postnatal stress: A review on novel aetiological mechanisms of common psychiatric disorders

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jawahar, Magdalene C ^a   Murgatroyd, Chris ^b   Harrison, Emma L ^a,c   Baune, Bernhard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Early life stress; Epigenetics; Histone acetylation; Maternal separation; Psychopathology; Stress responsive genes

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; REELIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

5 HTT GENE; AVP GENE; BDNF GENE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHILD ABUSE; CRFR2 GENE; CRH GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; ER ALPHA GENE; GAD1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GR GENE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REELIN GENE; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84946925863     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0156-3     Document Type: Review

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