Posttraumatic psychopathology and the pace of the epigenetic clock: a longitudinal investigation.
CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to suggest that posttraumatic psychopathology is longitudinally associated with a quickened pace of the epigenetic clock. Results raise the possibility that accelerated cellular aging is a common biological consequence of stress-related psychopathology, which carries implications for identifying mechanisms of stress-related cellular aging and developing interventions to slow its pace.
PMID: 29897034 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Psychological Medicine - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wolf EJ, Logue MW, Morrison FG, Wilcox ES, Stone A, Schichman SA, McGlinchey RE, Milberg WP, Miller MW Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research
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