DNA methylation and socioeconomic status in a Mexican-American birth cohort

Abstract Background Maternal social environmental stressors during pregnancy are associated with adverse birth and child developmental outcomes, and epigenetics has been proposed as a possible mechanism for such relationships. Methods In a Mexican-American birth cohort of 241 maternal-infant pairs,...

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Main Authors: Eric S. Coker, Robert Gunier, Karen Huen, Nina Holland, Brenda Eskenazi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Clinical Epigenetics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-018-0494-z

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