Maternal stress induces epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases in the offspring.

Maternal stress induces epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases in the offspring.

The gestational state is a period of particular vulnerability to diseases that affect maternal and fetal health. Stress during gestation may represent a powerful influence on maternal mental health and offspring brain plasticity and development. Here we show that the fetal transcriptome, through mic...

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Main Authors: Fabiola C R Zucchi, Youli Yao, Isaac D Ward, Yaroslav Ilnytskyy, David M Olson, Karen Benzies, Igor Kovalchuk, Olga Kovalchuk, Gerlinde A S Metz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3579944?pdf=render

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