Maternal mental illness can have a devastating effect during the perinatal period, and has a
profound impact on the care that the baby receives and on the relationships that the baby …

Abstract Purpose of Review To summarize recent literature relating early-life environmental
exposures on DNA methylation in the placenta, to identify how variation in placental …

Air pollution is associated with a broad range of adverse health effects, including mortality
and morbidity due to cardio‐and cerebrovascular diseases (CCVD), but the molecular …

In utero exposure to maternal tobacco smoking is the leading cause of birth complications in
addition to being associated with later impairment in child's development. Epigenetic …

Prenatal maternal smoking is a risk factor for lower birth weight. We performed epigenome-
wide association analyses of placental DNA methylation (DNAm) at 720,077 cytosine …

The use of tobacco during pregnancy is the leading preventable cause of pregnancy
complications and adverse birth outcomes. In high‐income countries, around one in 10 …

Abstract Purpose of Review There is interest in evaluating the developmental origins of
health and disease (DOHaD) which emphasizes the role of prenatal and early-life …

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) due to in-utero opioid exposure is a growing
epidemic with significant variability in clinical presentation and severity. Currently, NAS …

In 785 mother–child (50% male) pairs from a longitudinal epidemiological birth cohort, we
investigated associations between inflammation-related epigenetic polygenic risk scores (i …

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) due to in‐utero opioid exposure has significant
variability of severity. Preliminary studies have suggested that epigenetic variation within the …