Month: June 2014

Stress in children alters their genome

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Children growing up in stressful and socially-disadvantaged households had altered genomes- i.e. genetic material. In a study published by Daniel Notterman and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/02/1404293111), the DNA of 40 nine year old Africa-American boys was examined in relation to their upbringing. Factors including household income, family stability, … Read more