Longitudinal changes in epigenetic age acceleration across childhood and adolescence

JAMA Pediatrics

2024-10-07

(Press-News.org) About The Study: The transition from childhood to adolescence may represent a sensitive developmental period when racism can have long-term deleterious impacts on healthy human development across the life span. Future research should build on the present study and interrogate which social regularities and policies may be perpetuating discrimination against ethnically and racially minoritized adolescents.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Juan Del Toro, PhD, email jdeltoro@umn.edu.

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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.3669)

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