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| Title |
Environmental stress and epigenetic transgenerational inheritance
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0153-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael K Skinner |
| Abstract |
Previous studies have shown a wide variety of environmental toxicants and abnormal nutrition can promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease. More recently a number of studies have indicated environmental stress can also promote epigenetic alterations that are transmitted to subsequent generations to induce pathologies. A recent study by Yao and colleagues demonstrated gestational exposure to restraint stress and forced swimming promoted preterm birth risk and adverse newborn outcomes generationally. This ancestral stress promoted the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of abnormalities in the great-grand offspring of the exposed gestating female. Several studies now support the role of environmental stress in promoting the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease. Observations suggest ancestral environmental stress may be a component of disease etiology in the current population.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12916-014-0121-6.pdf. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 25 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 12% |
| Japan | 2 | 8% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 52% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 72% |
| Scientists | 4 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 293 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 285 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 70 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 50 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 45 | 15% |
| Researcher | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 39 | 13% |
| Unknown | 41 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 78 | 27% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 37 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 9% |
| Psychology | 24 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 55 | 19% |
| Unknown | 54 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 December 2023.
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#518
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#7,162
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