Open AccessPredicting Later-Life Outcomes of Early-Life Exposures
Author(s) -
Kim Boekelheide,
Bruce Blumberg,
Robert E. Chapin,
Ila Cote,
Joseph H. Graziano,
Amanda Janesick,
Robert H. Lane,
Karen A. Lillycrop,
Leslie Myatt,
J. Christopher States,
Kristina A. Thayer,
Michael P. Waalkes,
John M. Rogers
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1204934
Subject(s) - disease , stressor , medicine , malnutrition , quality of life (healthcare) , environmental health , gerontology , psychiatry , pathology , nursing
In utero exposure of the fetus to a stressor can lead to disease in later life. Epigenetic mechanisms are likely mediators of later-life expression of early-life events.
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