His research includes investigating the effects of community - level factors, maternal psychosocial factors (e.g., trauma), and offspring
epigenetic influences on early childhood development; the evaluation of approaches to improve service engagement; and the use of quasi-experimental methods and large administrative datasets to estimate the causal effects of home visiting on maternal and child health outcomes.
Citation: Beach SRH, Lei MK, Brody GH, Dogan MV and Philibert RA (2015) Higher levels of protective parenting are associated with better young adult health: exploration of mediation through
epigenetic influences on pro-inflammatory processes.
Nutrition deficiencies and maternal smoking have
epigenetic influences on the developing lung.
I would have erred had I not cited other works by Vosshall and Keller in the concluding sentence of my 2012 review: «Human pheromones and food odors:
epigenetic influences on the socioaffective nature of evolved behaviors.»
This could give us some optimism that
any epigenetic influence on our society's obesity and diabetes problem might also be limited and / or reversible.»
Not exact matches
In January 2012, a group of midwives convened a panel
on Epigenetic Influence and Impact
on Childbirth.
Dahlen helped spearhead the
Epigenetic Influence and Impact
on Childbirth meeting.
Epigenetics (literally «above the gene») is a recent scientific development that examines how particular mechanisms can
influence whether certain genes are turned off, turned
on, or modify a gene's level of activity.
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Epigenetic» marks
on genes do not affect the information but do
influence gene activity, as the simplified diagrams below show.
Such
epigenetic mechanisms are high
on the list of suspects when it comes to explaining how environmental factors that affect parents can later
influence their children, such as in the Dutch second world war study, but just how these
epigenetic changes might be passed
on to future generations is a mystery.
Alternatively,
epigenetic changes — changes in the way genes are switched
on and off —
influencing key genes, induced by sex hormones, may be responsible.
Our life experiences exert a profound
influence on how we age and can even alter the ways genes function without changing the underlying DNA sequence; these genetic changes are called
epigenetic traits.
The new study is among the first to investigate the
influence of phthalate
on sperm
epigenetics in humans.
The authors believe theirs is among the first human studies to investigate the
influence of phthalate exposure
on sperm
epigenetics, embryo development and whether DNA methylation in sperm cells may be a path by which a father's environmental exposure
influences these endpoints.
Through colorful anecdotes and commonsense explanations, author Richard C. Francis, who holds a Ph.D. in biology, delivers an engaging tour of the new science of
epigenetics, the study of environmental
influences on gene expression.
The International Human Epigenome Consortium presents a series of studies
on how
epigenetics influences immunity, cell lineage determination, and differentiation.
Ladd - Acosta's research is focused
on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale
epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors
influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.
For example, work in the field of
epigenetics demonstrates that environment can have a profound
influence on how DNA impacts biology.
His lab specializes in
epigenetics — analyzing the chemical tags
on genes that
influence their activity.
Cancer can also occur when certain normal genes (tumor suppressor genes, for example) are «switched
on or off» as a result of environmental
epigenetics —
influences that occur throughout your life.
The fact that we're based in large part
on the genes we inherit from our parents is certainly a point for nature, but the fact that our day - to - day life can
influence epigenetic changes certainly puts one up
on the board for nurture.
Epigenetic studies to unravel the
influence of the environment
on the expression of diseases, such as COPD or asthma.
The lab is currently focused
on utilizing these models to interrogate how genetic and
epigenetic alterations
influence lineage dependencies, genomic instability, DNA repair, replicative stress, and metabolism.
The research is also looking at the
influence of various substances from the environment
on the
epigenetic constitution of organisms, including humans.
The risk profile has a strong basis in
epigenetics — the
influence of diet and lifestyle
on how particular genotypes are expressed.
AD is not a disease of genetics, but one of
epigenetics — the
influence of diet, environment, and lifestyle
on how genes are expressed.
These include the complicated, incomplete and easily misinterpreted scientific literature
on mercury; mercury's complex, nonlinear toxicity; the
influence of genetics,
epigenetics and micronutrient status in shaping mercury susceptibility; the ability of the body's natural defenses to mask toxicity, creating long latencies between exposures and symptoms; and mercury's varied and nonspecific symptoms, which may also be intermittent in the early stages.
The current results suggest that protective parenting measured during late childhood and early adolescence may also exert an
influence on genomic functioning and health in young adults, and contributes to promising work
on multiple fronts suggesting that various
epigenetic mechanisms may be related to, and help account for, long - term effects of protective parenting
on health.
Fathers may have heritable physiological impacts
on their children via genetic and
epigenetic mechanisms that begin to emerge shortly after conception12 and which may
influence maternal investment during pregnancy.13 Older fathers tend to transmit more mutations to their offspring, 14 while early childhood paternal stressors predict children's adolescent gene methylation patterns (a type of chemical modification of DNA).15