Adriana C Vidal, David W Sosnowski, Joddy Marchesoni, Carole Grenier, John Thorp, Susan K Murphy, Sara B Johnson, Billy Schlief, Cathrine Hoyo
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contribute to numerous negative health outcomes across the life course and across generations. Here, we extend prior work by examining the association of maternal ACEs, and their interaction with financial stress and discrimination, with methylation status within eight differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in imprinted domains in newborns. ACEs, financial stress during pregnancy, and experience of discrimination were self-reported among 232 pregnant women. DNA methylation was assessed at PEG10 / SGCE, NNAT, IGF2, H19, PLAGL1 , PEG3 , MEG3-IG , and DLK1/MEG3 regulatory sequences using pyrosequencing...
December 2024: Epigenetics: Official Journal of the DNA Methylation Society