Traditionally, genetics and lifestyle are considered as main determinants of aging-
associated pathological conditions. Accumulating evidence, however, suggests that risk of …

Hemispheric asymmetries represent one of the major organizational principles in vertebrate
neurobiology, but their molecular determinants are not well understood. For handedness …

Modifications of RNA, collectively called the" epitranscriptome", might provide novel
biomarkers and innovative targets for interventions in geroscience but are just beginning to …

Background Cigarette smoking has severe adverse health consequences in adults and in
the offspring of mothers who smoke during pregnancy. One of the most widely reported …

Research in the field of gerontology has traditionally focused on later life stages. There is
increasing evidence, however, that both the rate of age-related functional decline and the …

While previous studies have shown intergenerational transmission of birth weight from
mother to child, whether the continuity persists across 3 generations has rarely been …

Unlike singletons, twins require attention not only to the birth weight of the fetuses but also to
discordance (ie, the differences between weights) because twin growth discordance is a …

Background Several studies have shown that the in utero environment, which can be
indexed by birth weight (BW), is associated with cortical morphology in adolescence and …

Background Body size, nutrition and socioeconomic position (SEP) in early life have been
associated with a wide range of long-term health effects. Epigenetics is one possible …

Background Lung function is an important predictor of morbidity and mortality, with
accelerated lung function decline reported to have immense consequences for the world's …