Associations Between Maternal Community Deprivation and Infant DNA Methylation of the SLC6A4 Gene

• Main Authors: Kelly DeLano (Author), Alonzo T. Folger (Author), Lili Ding (Author), Hong Ji (Author), Kimberly Yolton (Author), Robert T. Ammerman (Author), Judith B. Van Ginkel (Author), Katherine A. Bowers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Poverty is negatively associated with health and developmental outcomes. DNA methylation (DNAm) has been proposed as a mechanism that underlies the association between adversity experienced by mothers in poverty and health and developmental outcomes in their offspring. Previous studies...