Life stress is a central construct in many models of human health and disease. The present
article reviews research on stress and health, with a focus on (a) how life stress has been …

The last few years have seen the development of large efforts for the analysis of genome
function, especially in the context of genome variation. One of the most prominent directions …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

Variation in gene expression is an important mechanism underlying susceptibility to
complex disease. The simultaneous genome-wide assay of gene expression and genetic …

Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping studies have become a widely used tool
for identifying genetic variants that affect gene regulation. In these studies, expression levels …

To clarify the biological rationale for social regulation of gene expression, this study sought
to identify the specific immune cell types that are transcriptionally sensitive to subjective …

Recent studies of the HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines have identified large numbers of
quantitative trait loci for gene expression (eQTLs). Reanalyzing these data using a novel …

Recent analyses have discovered broad alterations in the expression of human genes
across different social environments. The emerging field of social genomics has begun to …

Advances in laboratory sciences offer much in the challenge to unravel the complex etiology
of cancer and to therefore provide an evidence‐base for prevention. One area where …

Although hypoxia is a major stress on physiological processes, several human populations
have survived for millennia at high altitudes, suggesting that they have adapted to hypoxic …