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A review of epigenetics and its association with ageing of muscle and bone

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Epigenetic Age Associates with Psychosocial Stress and Resilience in Children of Latinx Immigrants

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Impact of excessive alcohol abuse on age prediction using the VISAGE enhanced tool for epigenetic age estimation in blood

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Individual longitudinal changes in DNA-methylome identify signatures of early-life adversity and correlate with later outcome

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Epigenetic modifications: mechanisms of disease and biomarkers of food allergy

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Maternal psychosocial risk factors and child gestational epigenetic age in a South African birth cohort study

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Chemical and climatic environmental exposures and epigenetic aging: A systematic review

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Birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy as predictors of epigenetic age acceleration in young adults from metropolitan Cebu, Philippines

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Epigenetic clock as a correlate of anxiety

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Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age

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Sex-specific and generational effects of alcohol and tobacco use on epigenetic age acceleration in the Michigan longitudinal study

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DNA Methylation–Based Measures of Biological Aging

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Twin Research in the Post-Genomic Era: Dissecting the Pathophysiological Effects of Adversity and the Social Environment

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Region‐based epigenetic clock design improves RRBS‐based age prediction

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Prospective longitudinal study of the pregnancy DNA methylome: the US Pregnancy, Race, Environment, Genes (PREG) study

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Associations between body size, nutrition and socioeconomic position in early life and the epigenome: A systematic review

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Low birthweight is associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the first 3 years of life

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Epigenetic aging in children from a small‐scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict

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Characterising developmental dynamics of adult epigenetic clock sites

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Childhood growth and development and DNA methylation age in mid-life

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Infant Emotion Development and Temperament

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Maternal biological age assessed in early pregnancy is associated with gestational age at birth

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Towards a Novel Frontier in the Use of Epigenetic Clocks in Epidemiology

Martínez‐Magaña, J. J., Hurtado-Soriano, J., Rivero-Segura, N. A., Montalvo‐Ortiz, J. L., Garcia-delaTorre, P., Becerril-Rojas, K., & Gómez-Verján, J. C. (2024) · Archives of Medical Research · doi:10.1016/j.arcmed.2024.103033 · Cited by 13

Sex- and Tissue-Specific Effects of Binge-Level Prenatal Alcohol Consumption on DNA Methylation at Birth

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Epigenetic aging in patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease: results of the LipidCardio study

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Cumulative stress, PTSD, and emotion dysregulation during pregnancy and epigenetic age acceleration in Hispanic mothers and their newborn infants

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Redundancy analysis allows improved detection of methylation changes in large genomic regions

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parent–Infant Interactions

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Social and Behavioral Epigenetics: Evolving Perspectives on Nature-Nurture Interplay, Plasticity, and Inheritance

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DNA methylation perturbations may link altered development and aging in the lung

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Changes in DNA Methylation Induced by Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds as Potential Predictor of Disease Risk

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Sex-Specific Associations between Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenols and Phthalates and Infant Epigenetic Age Acceleration

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Designing Epigenetic Clocks for Wildlife Research

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Associations of prenatal one-carbon metabolism nutrients and metals with epigenetic aging biomarkers at birth and in childhood in a US cohort

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A Study of the Association between Breastfeeding and DNA Methylation in Peripheral Blood Cells of Infants

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Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Mothers and Offspring 4–10 Years after a Pregnancy Complicated by Gestational Diabetes and Obesity

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Invited Commentary: Epigenetic Clocks and Obesity—Towards the Next Frontier Using Integrative Approaches and Early-Life Models

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Socio-Economic Position Under the Microscope: Getting ‘Under the Skin’ and into the Cells

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Brain Development in Infants

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Invited Commentary: Integrating Genomics and Social Epidemiology—Analysis of Late-Life Low Socioeconomic Status and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity

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Genetic and environmental contributions to epigenetic aging across adolescence and young adulthood

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Prenatal Maternal Occupation and Child Epigenetic Age Acceleration in an Agricultural Region

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Action in Development

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Maternal epigenetic clocks measured during pregnancy do not predict gestational age at delivery or offspring birth outcomes: a replication study in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines

Ryan, C. P., Rege, R. J., Lee, N. R., Carba, D. B., Kobor, M. S., MacIsaac, J. L., Lin, D. S., Atashzay, P., & Kuzawa, C. W. (2022) · Clinical Epigenetics · doi:10.1186/s13148-022-01296-6 · Cited by 8

Infant Object Manipulation and Play

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Mother’s childhood adversity is associated with accelerated epigenetic aging in pregnancy and in male newbornsPreprint

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DNA methylation–based age prediction and sex-specific epigenetic aging in a lizard with female-biased longevity

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Infant Vocal Learning and Speech Production

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The Development of Infant Feeding

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Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging

Bolhuis, E., Belsky, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Shalev, I., Hastings, W. J., Tollenaar, M. S., O’Donnell, K. J., McGill, M. G., Pokhvisneva, I., Lin, D. T. S., et al. (2022) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108446 · Cited by 7

Maternal childhood adversity and infant epigenetic aging: Moderation by restless sleep during pregnancy

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Infant Attachment (to Mother and Father) and Its Place in Human Development

Dagan, O., & Sagi‐Schwartz, A. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.025 · Cited by 6

Accelerated epigenetic aging at birth interacts with parenting hostility to predict child temperament and subsequent psychological symptoms

Manczak, E. M., Scott, S., & Millwood, S. N. (2021) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579421000614 · Cited by 7

Newborn DNA methylation age differentiates long-term weight trajectories: the Boston Birth Cohort

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DNA-methylation age and accelerated epigenetic aging in blood as a tumor marker for predicting breast cancer susceptibility

Jung, S. Y., Yu, H., Deng, Y., & Pellegrini, M. A. (2024) · Aging · doi:10.18632/aging.206169 · Cited by 5

Association of early-life factors with biological age acceleration and the mediating effect of social environment risks in middle-aged and older adults

Liu, X., Jin, M. S., Yang, Z., Zhang, Z., Huang, N., Huang, T., & Li, N. (2024) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afae272 · Cited by 6

Determination of saliva epigenetic age in infancy, and its association with parental socio-economic characteristics and pregnancy outcomes

Popovic, M. B., Fiano, V., Isaevska, E., Moccia, C., Trevisan, M., Rusconi, F., Marco, L. D., Polidoro, S., Merletti, F., Pizzi, C., et al. (2020) · Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease · doi:10.1017/s2040174420000380 · Cited by 4

Understanding and Evaluating the Moral World in Infancy

Hamlin, J. K., & Sitch, M. J. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.028 · Cited by 6

Childhood growth and development and DNA methylation age in mid-lifePreprint

Maddock, J., Fernandez, J. C., Wong, A., Ploubidis, G. B., Kuh, D. J., Bell, J. T., & Hardy, R. (2020) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2020.12.02.20242529 · Cited by 5

Does DNA methylation in the fetal brain leave an epigenetic memory in the blood?

Strawn, M., Safranski, T. J., & Behura, S. K. (2023) · Gene · doi:10.1016/j.gene.2023.147788 · Cited by 4

World Trade Center Exposure, DNA Methylation Changes, and Cancer: A Review of Current Evidence

Tuminello, S., Nguyen, E., Durmuş, N., Alptekin, R., Yilmaz, M., Crisanti, M. C., Snuderl, M., Chen, Y., Shao, Y., Reibman, J., et al. (2023) · Epigenomes · doi:10.3390/epigenomes7040031 · Cited by 6

Infant Emotional Development

Mitsven, S. G., Messinger, D. S., Moffitt, J., & Ahn, Y. A. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.027 · Cited by 6

Epigenetic clock and DNA methylation studies of roe deer in the wildPreprint

Lemaître, J., Rey, B., Gaillard, J., Régis, C., Gilot‐Fromont, E., Pellerin, M., Haghani, A., Zoller, J. A., Li, C. Z., & Horvath, S. (2020) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2020.09.21.306613 · Cited by 4

Climate change, age acceleration, and the erosion of fitness in polar bearsPreprint

Newediuk, L., Richardson, E. S., Biddlecombe, B. A., Kassim, H. B., Kathan, L., Lunn, N. J., Rivkin, L. R., Salama, O. E., Schmidt, C., Jones, M. J., et al. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.01.05.574416 · Cited by 5

Lagged effects of childhood depressive symptoms on adult epigenetic aging

Han, L. K. M., Aghajani, M., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Copeland, W., Åberg, K. A., & van den Oord, E. J. C. G. (2024) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291724001570 · Cited by 4

The Infant’s Visual World

Jayaraman, S., & Smith, L. B. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.020 · Cited by 2

Visual Development

Maurer, D. M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.006 · Cited by 3

Maternal smoking during pregnancy could accelerate aging in the adulthood: evidence from a perspective study in UK Biobank

Jiang, W., Lei, Q., Gao, W., Sun, X., Qiao, C., Shan, X., Tang, Y., Zuo, Y., Wang, X., Han, T., et al. (2024) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175150 · Cited by 4

Infant Learning in the Digital Age

Rusnak, S. N., & Barr, R. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.016 · Cited by 3

Epigenetics, Methylation, and Breastfeeding

Genna, C. W. (2018) · Clinical Lactation · doi:10.1891/2158-0782.9.3.144 · Cited by 3

High dose dietary vitamin D allocates surplus calories to muscle and growth instead of fat via modulation of myostatin and leptin signaling.Preprint

Roizen, J. D., Long, C., Casella, A., Nguyen, M., Danahy, L., Seiler, C., Lei, M., & Mark, J. (2024) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4202165/v1 · Cited by 3

Infant Memory

Hayne, H., & Herbert, J. S. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.012 · Cited by 1

Decoding human longevity: Genetic and molecular insights from accelerated to successful ageing

Cattaneo, M., Carnevali, S., Madeddu, P. R., & Puca, A. A. (2026) · Ageing Research Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.arr.2026.103176 · Cited by 2

Intergenerational Implications of PCOS

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Impact of maternal cardiometabolic status after bariatric surgery on the association between telomere length and adiposity in offspring

San-Cristóbal, R., de Toro‐Martín, J., Guénard, F., Përusse, L., Biron, S., Marceau, S., Lafortune, A., & Vohl, M. (2023) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-47813-2 · Cited by 2

Maximizing insights from longitudinal epigenetic age data: simulations, applications, and practical guidance

Großbach, A., Suderman, M. J., Hüls, A., Lussier, A. A., Smith, A. D. A. C., Walton, E., Dunn, E. C., & Simpkin, A. J. (2024) · Clinical Epigenetics · doi:10.1186/s13148-024-01784-x · Cited by 2

Embodied Brain Model for Understanding Functional Neural Development of Fetuses and Infants

Yamada, Y., Kanazawa, H., & Kuniyoshi, Y. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108351959.001 · Cited by 3

Early‐life dietary and epigenetic influences on childhood musculoskeletal health: Update on the UK component of the ALPHABET project

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