Pregnant women's cognitive appraisal of a natural disaster affects their children's BMI and central adiposity via DNA methylation: Project Ice Storm

Early Human Development

Volumn 103, Issue , 2016, Pages 189-192

  Cao Lei, Lei ^a   Dancause, Kelsey N ^b   Elgbeili, Guillaume ^a   Laplante, David P ^a   Szyf, Moshe ^c   King, Suzanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD GROWTH; COGNITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL DISASTER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; ATTITUDE; DISASTER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADIPOSITY; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS INDEX; COGNITION; DISASTERS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84990060770     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2016.09.013     Document Type: Article

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