Understanding differential disease susceptibility requires new tools to quantify the
cumulative effects of environmental stress. Evidence suggests that social, physical, and …

The possible causal role of the environment in health disparities is not well understood,
even though it has been a national priority for many years. Progress to investigate the …

Human health tends to mirror gradients in social standing related to class, ethnicity and race.
Past research in the social sciences suggests that environmental experiences related to …

The ongoing epidemic of chronic diseases involves a spectrum of clinical entities now
understood to represent late manifestations of progressive metabolic dysfunction initiated in …

Trevor K. Archer Paul A. Wade the cell cycle, in response to biologic signaling systems, and
with environmental changes. Deciphering how the epigenome responds to environmental …

The brave new world envisioned by proponents of personalized medicine has attracted
considerable interest and investment during the past decade or so. The excitement is …

Emerging research demonstrates that diet, pollution, and other environmental triggers can
alter both the function and expression of human genes and lead to a heightened disease …

Social and behavioral research in public health is often intimately tied to profound, but
frequently neglected, biological influences from underlying genetic, environmental, and …

Abstract Purpose of Review African-Americans disproportionately suffer from leading causes
of morbidity and mortality including cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and preterm birth …

Environmental Epigenetics in Toxicology and Public Health provides in-depth discussions of
the suite of complex environmental factors shown to impact epigenetic components within …