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Early-life Environmental Programming

Early-Life Environmental Programming is an epigenetic mechanism by which environmental exposures during critical developmental windows in prenatal and early postnatal life induce persistent changes in gene expression and cellular function, thereby increasing susceptibility to chronic diseases in later life.

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4.9K

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254

Authors

128

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2017–2026

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Early-life Programming

Parents

Publications

57

Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health

Andrew S. Garner, Jack P. Shonkoff, Ben Siegel et al. · PEDIATRICS · 2011 · 1K citations

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Environmental programming of stress responses through DNA methylation: life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome

Michael J. Meaney, Moshe Szyf · Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience · 2005 · 940 citations · Full text

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Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids and the Programming of the Brain

Leonie Welberg, Jonathan R. Seckl · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · 2001 · 602 citations

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5′-Heterogeneity of Glucocorticoid Receptor Messenger RNA Is Tissue Specific: Differential Regulation of Variant Transcripts by Early-Life Events

James A. McCormick, V. Lyons, Michael D. Jacobson et al. · Molecular Endocrinology · 2000 · 253 citations · Full text

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Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood

Thomas W. McDade, Calen P. Ryan, Meaghan J. Jones et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 178 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MW
    Margaret Wolan Sullivan

    Johnson University, United States

    2 publications · 128 citations

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  2. MA
    Mark A. Hanson

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 75 citations

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  3. RS
    Richard Saffery

    Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia

    2 publications · 96 citations

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    h-index

  4. RA
    Robert A. Waterland

    Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  5. SL
    Susan L. Prescott

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    2 publications · 79 citations

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Institutions

128

  1. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    2.8K citations

  2. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    221 citations

  3. Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, Spain

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    109 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    14 publications

    624 citations

  5. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    301 citations

  7. University of Pecs

    Pécs, Hungary

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    232 citations

  8. Princess Margaret Hospital for Children

    Perth, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

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Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 3 publications · 91 citations

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  2. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

    2 publications · 128 citations

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  3. Pediatric Research

    2 publications · 145 citations

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  4. Behavioural Brain Research

    2 publications · 77 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. Physiological Genomics

    1 publications · 50 citations

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