Dimensions of childhood adversity differentially affect biological aging in major depression

Abstract Adverse childhood experiences have been consistently linked with physical and mental health disorders in adulthood that may be mediated, in part, via the effects of such exposures on biological aging. Using recently developed “epigenetic clocks”, which provide an estimate of biological age,...

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Main Authors: Ryan Rampersaud, Ekaterina Protsenko, Ruoting Yang, Victor Reus, Rasha Hammamieh, Gwyneth W. Y. Wu, Elissa Epel, Marti Jett, Aarti Gautam, Synthia H. Mellon, Owen M. Wolkowitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2022-10-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02198-0