The Signature of Maternal Rearing in the Methylome in Rhesus Macaque Prefrontal Cortex and T Cells
15626 • The Journal of Neuroscience, October 31, 2012 • 32(44):15626–15642 Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive The Signature of Maternal Rearing in the Methylome in Rhesus Macaque Prefrontal Cortex and T Cells Nadine Provenc¸al,1,2,4* Matthew J. Suderman,1,2,3* Claire Guillemin,1,2,4 Renaud Massart,2 Angela Ruggiero,11 Dongsha Wang,2,4 Allyson J. Bennett,8,10 Peter J. Pierre,9,10 David P. Friedman,10 Sylvana M. Coˆte´,4,5 Michael Hallett,3 Richard E. Tremblay,4,6,7 Stephen J. Suomi,11 and Moshe Szyf1,2 1Sackler Program for Epigenetics and Developmental Psychobiology, 2Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and 3McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 0G4, 4Research Unit on Children’s Psycho-Social Maladjustment and St-Justine Hospital Research Centre, 5School of Social and Preventive Medicine, and 6Department of Psychology and Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3J7, 7School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, 8Psychology Department and Harlow Center for Biological Psychology and 9Behavioral Management Unit, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, 10Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, and 11Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7971 Early-life adversity is associated with a broad scope of life-long health and behavioral disorders. Particularly critical is the role of the mother. A possible mechanism is that these effects are mediated by “epigenetic” mechanisms.
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