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

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

DNA methylation-based biomarkers of aging are highly correlated with actual age. Departures of methylation-estimated age from actual age can be used to define epigenetic measures of child development or age acceleration (AA) in adults. Very little is known about genetic or environmental determinants...

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Main Authors: Simpkin, Andrew J., Hemani, Gibran, Suderman, Matthew, Gaunt, Tom R., Lyttleton, Oliver, Mcardle, Wendy L., Ring, Susan M., Sharp, Gemma C., Tilling, Kate, Horvath, Steve, Kunze, Sonja, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Ward-Caviness, Cavin, Nohr, Ellen A., Sørensen, Thorkild I. A., Relton, Caroline L., Smith, George Davey
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690495/

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