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Epigenetic Transmission of the Impact of Early Stress Across Generations

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Franklin, Tamara B., Russig, Holger, Weiss, Isabelle C., Gräff, Johannes, Linder, Natacha, Michalon, Aubin, Vizi, Sandor, Mansuy, Isabelle M.·2010·Biological Psychiatry

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Background Traumatic experiences in early life are risk factors for the development of behavioral and emotional disorders. Such disorders can persist through adulthood and have often been reported to be transmitted across generations.Methods To investigate the transgenerational effect of early stress, mice were exposed to chronic and unpredictable maternal separation from postnatal day 1 to 14.Results We show that chronic and unpredictable maternal separation induces depressive-like behaviors and alters the behavioral response to aversive environments in the separated animals when adult. Most of the behavioral alterations are further expressed by the offspring of males subjected to maternal separation, despite the fact that these males are reared normally. Chronic and unpredictable maternal separation also alters the profile of DNA methylation in the promoter of several candidate genes in the germline of the separated males. Comparable changes in DNA methylation are also present in the brain of the offspring and are associated with altered gene expression.Conclusions These findings highlight the negative impact of early stress on behavioral responses across generations and on the regulation of DNA methylation in the germline.

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Authors: Franklin, T. B., Russig, H., Weiss, I. C., Gräff, J., Linder, N., Michalon, A., Vizi, S., & Mansuy, I. M.
Affiliations: University of Zurich (CH)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (CH)
Corresponding author: Mansuy, Isabelle M.
ORCID: Franklin, Tamara B.
Gräff, Johannes
Michalon, Aubin
Mansuy, Isabelle M.
Venue: Biological Psychiatry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2010-09
Volume: 68
Issue: 5
Pages: 408-415
ISSN: 0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.05.036
OpenAlex: W2035616108
Cited by: 1,125
References: 68
Citations by year: 2026: 35 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 115 · 2019: 75 · 2018: 96 · 2017: 79 · 2016: 89 · 2015: 88 · 2014: 95 · 2013: 82 · 2012: 66
FWCI: 25.65
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
Funders: University of Zürich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Swiss National Science Foundation
National Center for Competence in Research “Neural Plasticity and Repair,”
Human Frontier Science Program
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation
Roche
European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Program
Novartis Research Foundation
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords: transgenerational transmission, early life stress, maternal separation, chronic unpredictable mild stress, depression-like behavior, DNA methylation, offspring behavior, gene expression
MeSH terms: Age Factors, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Mental Disorders, Brain, Female, Humans, Male, Maternal Deprivation, Sex Factors, Stress, Psychological, Gene Expression, DNA Methylation, Models, Animal, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice

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