Mechanism by Which Child Abuse Influences Adult Health Identified [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/29/144:00 AM

A new study demonstrates that childhood abuse affects the way genes are activated, thereby influencing a child’s long-term development.

Previous studies focused on how a particular child’s individual characteristics and genetics interacted with that child’s experiences in an effort to understand how health problems emerge.

In the new study, researchers were able to measure the degree to which genes were turned “on” or “off” through a biochemical process called methylation.

[For more of this story, written by Rick Nauert, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/07/28/mechanism-by-which-child-abuse-influences-adult-health-identified/72971.html]

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