Prenatal and early life influences on epigenetic age in children: A study of mother-offspring pairs from two cohort studies

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 191-201

  Simpkin, Andrew J ^a   Hemani, Gibran ^a   Suderman, Matthew ^a   Gaunt, Tom R ^a   Lyttleton, Oliver ^a   Mcardle, Wendy L ^a   Ring, Susan M ^a   Sharp, Gemma C ^a   Tilling, Kate ^a   Horvath, Steve ^b,c   Kunze, Sonja ^d   Peters, Annette ^d   Waldenberger, Melanie ^d   Ward Caviness, Cavin ^d   Nohr, Ellen A ^e   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a,f,g   Relton, Caroline L ^a,h   Smith, George Davey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Capital Region   (Denmark)

^g The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^h NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DNA; SELENIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELENIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTHER;

AGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS;

EID: 84962162147     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv456     Document Type: Article

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