Epigenetics, Genes, Phenotype, Biology (Nature and Nurture)

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Aristizabal, M. J., Anreiter, I., Halldorsdottir, T., Odgers, C. L., McDade, T. W., Goldenberg, A., ... & O’Donnell, K. J. (2020). Biological embedding of experience: A primer on epigenetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23261-23269. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820838116

Arnatkeviciute, A., Fulcher, B. D., Bellgrove, M. A., _ Fornito, A. (2021). Where the genome meets the connectome- understanding how genes shape human brain connectivity. Neuroimage, 244, 118570. Doi.org_10.1016_j.neuroimage.2021.118570

Arioli, M., Ricciardi, E., & Cattaneo, Z. (2021). Social cognition in the blind brain: A coordinate‐based meta‐analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 42(5), 1243-1256. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25289

Azargoonjahromi, A. (2023). The role of epigenetics in anxiety disorders. Molecular Biology Reports, 1-12. doi.org/10.1007/s11033-023-08787-6

Bar-Sadeh, B., Rudnizky, S., Pnueli, L., Bentley, G. R., Stöger, R., Kaplan, A., & Melamed, P. (2020). Unravelling the role of epigenetics in reproductive adaptations to early-life environment. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 16(9), 519-533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-020-0370-8

Barlow, F. K. (2019). Nature vs. nurture is nonsense: On the necessity of an integrated genetic, social, developmental, and personality psychology. Australian Journal of Psychology, 71(1), 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12240

Barlow, G. W., Silverberg, J., & Livingstone, F. B. (2019). Sociobiology: Beyond nature/nurture?: Reports, definitions and debate. Routledge.

Berninger, V., & Richards, T. (2010). Inter-relationships among behavioral markers, genes, brain, and treatment in dyslexia and dysgraphia. Future Neurology, 5, 597-617. https://dx.doi.org/10.2217%2Ffnl.10.22

Berretta, E., Cutuli, D., Laricchiuta, D., & Petrosini, L. (2021). From animal to human epigenetics. In Developmental human behavioral epigenetics (pp. 27-58). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819262-7.00002-7

Birdsall, T. C. (2016). Nature, nurture, and bad luck: Revisiting the link between diet, lifestyle, and cancer. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, 15(1), 22-23.

Bludau, A., Royer, M., Meister, G., Neumann, I. D., & Menon, R. (2019). Epigenetic regulation of the social brain. Trends in Neurosciences, 42(7), 471-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2019.04.001

Bouchard Jr, T. J. (2016). Genes and behavior: Nature via nurture. In R.J. Sternberg, S.T. Fiske, & D.J. Foss (Eds.) Scientists making a difference: One hundred eminent behavioral and brain scientists talk about their most important contributions (pp. 73-76). Cambridge University Press.

Branchi, I. (2022). Recentering neuroscience on behavior: the interface between brain and environment is a privileged level of control of neural activity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 104678. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104678

Braun, P. R., Han, S., Hing, B., Nagahama, Y., Gaul, L. N., Heinzman, J. T., ... & Kawasaki, H. (2019). Genome-wide DNA methylation comparison between live human brain and peripheral tissues within individuals. Translational Psychiatry, 9, Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0376-y

Bueno, D. (2021). Epigenetics and learning. How the environment shapes gene expression, and the possible consequences for learning and behaviour. Epigenetics. https://solportal.ibe-unesco.org/articles/epigenetics-and-learning-how-the-environment-shapes-gene-expression-and-the-possible-consequences-for-learning-and-behaviour/

Byrne, B., Olson, R. K., Samuelsson, S., Wadsworth, S., Corley, R., DeFries, J. C., & Willcutt, E. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences on early literacy. Journal of Research in Reading, 29(1), 33-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00291.x

Casey, B. J., Glatt, C. E., Tottenham, N., Soliman, F., Bath, K., Amso, D., ... & McEwen, B. (2009). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a model system for examining gene by environment interactions across development. Neuroscience, 164(1), 108-120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuroscience.2009.03.081

Champagne, F. A. (2018). Social and behavioral epigenetics: evolving perspectives on nature-nurture interplay, plasticity, and inheritance. In The Palgrave handbook of biology and society (pp. 227-250). Palgrave Macmillan.

Chen, Y. C., Sudre, G., Sharp, W., Donovan, F., Chandrasekharappa, S. C., Hansen, N., ... & Shaw, P. (2018). Neuroanatomic, epigenetic and genetic differences in monozygotic twins discordant for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 23(3), 683-690. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fmp.2017.45

Cirulli, F. (2021). Embedding early experiences into brain function: Perspectives from behavioral epigenetics. In Developmental Human Behavioral Epigenetics (pp. 157-165). Academic Press.

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Daskalakis, N. P., Rijal, C. M., King, C., Huckins, L. M., & Ressler, K. J. (2018). Recent genetics and epigenetics approaches to PTSD. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20(5), Article 30. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11920-018-0898-7

de Magalhães-Barbosa, M. C., Prata-Barbosa, A., & da Cunha, A. J. L. A. (2021). Toxic stress, epigenetics and child development. Jornal de Pediatria. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jped.2021.09.007

de Zeeuw, E. L., Hottenga, J. J., Ouwens, K. G., Dolan, C. V., Ehli, E. A., Davies, G. E., ... & van Bergen, E. (2020). Intergenerational transmission of education and ADHD: Effects of parental genotypes. Behavior Genetics, 50(4),1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-020-09992-w

Desplats, P. A. (2014). Perinatal programming of neurodevelopment: Epigenetic mechanisms and the prenatal shaping of the brain. In M. Antonelli (Ed.), Perinatal programming of neurodevelopment (pp. 335-361). Springer.

Doucet, G. E., Moser, D. A., Rodrigue, A., Bassett, D. S., Glahn, D. C., & Frangou, S. (2018). Person-based brain morphometric similarity is heritable and correlates with biological features. Cerebral Cortex, 29(2), 852-862. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy287

Doust, C., Fontanillas, P., Eising, E., Gordon, S. D., Wang, Z., Alagöz, G., ... & Luciano, M. (2022). Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia. Nature Genetics, 54(11), 1621-1629. doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01192-y

Dvorak, A. V., Swift-LaPointe, T., Vavasour, I. M., Lee, L. E., Abel, S., Russell-Schulz, B., ... & Kolind, S. H. (2021). An atlas for human brain myelin content throughout the adult life span. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-13.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79540-3

Elliott, L. T., Sharp, K., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Shi, S., Miller, K. L., Douaud, G., ... & Smith, S. M. (2018). Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank. Nature, 562(7726), 210-216. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0571-7

Fagiolini, M., Jensen, C. L., & Champagne, F. A. (2009). Epigenetic influences on brain development and plasticity. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19(2), 207-212. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.conb.2009.05.009

Favé, M. J., Lamaze, F. C., Soave, D., Hodgkinson, A., Gauvin, H., Bruat, V., ... & Johnson, M. (2018). Gene-by-environment interactions in urban populations modulate risk phenotypes. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 827. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03202-2

Feil, R., & Fraga, M. F. (2012). Epigenetics and the environment: emerging patterns and implications. Nature Reviews Genetics, 13(2), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3142

Fischer, K. (2010). Epigenetics and ecology. [slides]. Harvard University (PSYCE-1609).

Fjell, A. M., Chen, C. H., Sederevicius, D., Sneve, M. H., Grydeland, H., Krogsrud, S. K., ... & Beck, D. (2018). Continuity and discontinuity in human cortical development and change from embryonic stages to old age. Cerebral Cortex, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy266

Finlay, B. L. (2022). The multiple contexts of brain scaling: Phenotypic integration in brain and behavioral evolution. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 97(1-2), 83-95. doi.org/10.1159/000521984

Fraga, M. F., Ballestar, E., Paz, M. F., Ropero, S., Setien, F., Ballestar, M. L., ... & Boix-Chornet, M. (2005). Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(30), 10604-10609. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500398102

Froemke, R. C., & Young, L. J. (2021). Oxytocin, neural plasticity, and social behavior. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 44. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-102320-102847

Fukushima, M., Betzel, R. F., He, Y., van den Heuvel, M. P., Zuo, X. N., & Sporns, O. (2018). Structure–function relationships during segregated and integrated network states of human brain functional connectivity. Brain Structure and Function, 223(3), 1091-1106. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00429-017-1539-3

Garcia-Garcia, M., Nikolaidis, A., Bellec, P., Craddock, R. C., Cheung, B., Castellanos, F. X., & Milham, M. P. (2018). Detecting stable individual differences in the functional organization of the human basal ganglia. NeuroImage, 170, 68-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuroimage.2017.07.029

Gage, F. H. (2022). Structural plasticity of the adult brain. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 6(2), 135-141. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2004.6.2/fgage

Gildner, T. E., & Levy, S. B. (2021). Intersecting vulnerabilities in human biology: Synergistic interactions between climate change and increasing obesity rates. American Journal of Human Biology, 33(2), e23460. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23460

Goldstein, J.M., Cohen, J. E., Mareckova, K., Holsen, L., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gilman, S. E., Buka, S. L., Hornig, M. (2021). Impact of prenatal maternal cytokine exposure on sex differences in brain circuitry regulating stress in offspring 45 years later. PNAS, 118(15) e2014464118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014464118

Gorchkova, M., Anreiter, I., & Sokolowski, M. B. (2023). Genes, environments, and epigenetics. In Sex, gender, and epigenetics (pp. 207-223). Academic Press. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823937-7.00017-1

Hackman, D. A., Farah, M. J., & Meaney, M. J. (2010). Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(9), 651-659. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fnrn2897

Hackman, D. A., Gallop, R., Evans, G. W., & Farah, M. J. (2015). Socioeconomic status and executive function: developmental trajectories and mediation. Developmental Science, 18(5), 686-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12246

Hao, J., Xie, H., Harp, K., Chen, Z., & Siu, K. C. (2021). Effects of virtual reality intervention on neural plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2021.06.024

Hair, N. L., Hanson, J. L., Wolfe, B. L., & Pollak, S. D. (2015). Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic achievement. JAMA Pediatrics, 169(9), 822-829. https://dx.doi.org/10.1001%2Fjamapediatrics.2015.1475

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Hindorff, L. A., Bonham, V. L., Brody, L. C., Ginoza, M. E., Hutter, C. M., Manolio, T. A., & Green, E. D. (2018). Prioritizing diversity in human genomics research. Nature Reviews Genetics, 19(3), 175-185. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fnrg.2017.89

Heilbron, K., Mozaffari, S. V., Vacic, V., Yue, P., Wang, W., Shi, J., ... & Wang, X. (2021). Advancing drug discovery using the power of the human genome. The Journal of Pathology, 254(4), 418-429.  https://doi.org/10.1002/path.5664

Horlbeck, M. A., Xu, A., Wang, M., Bennett, N. K., Park, C. Y., Bogdanoff, D., ... & Nakamura, K. (2018). Mapping the genetic landscape of human cells. Cell, 174(4), 953-967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.010

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Kumar, K., Toews, M., Chauvin, L., Colliot, O., & Desrosiers, C. (2018). Multi-modal brain fingerprinting: a manifold approximation based framework. NeuroImage, 183, 212-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.006

Leonard, J. A., Mackey, A. P., Finn, A. S., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2015). Differential effects of socioeconomic status on working and procedural memory systems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, Article 554. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffnhum.2015.00554

Lester, B. M., Conradt, E., LaGasse, L. L., Tronick, E. Z., Padbury, J. F., & Marsit, C. J. (2018). Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior in the human infant. Pediatrics, 142(4), Article e20171890. https://dx.doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2017-1890

Lieberman, D. (2016). The case against free will: What a quiet revolution in psychology has revealed about how behaviour is determined. Springer.

Liu, X., Fang, J. C., Zhi, X. Y., Yan, Q. Y., Zhu, H., & Xie, J. (2021). The influence of Val66Met polymorphism in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on stroke recovery outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 35(6), 550-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/15459683211014119

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Lozupone, M., D'Urso, F., Piccininni, C., Montagna, M. L., Sardone, R., Resta, E., ... & Panza, F. (2020). The relationship between epigenetics and microbiota in neuropsychiatric diseases. Epigenomics, 12(17), 1559-1568. https://doi.org/10.2217/epi-2020-0053

Lozupone, M., & Panza, F. (2020). Social determinants of late-life depression epigenetics. Epigenomics, 12(7), 559-562. https://doi.org/10.2217/epi-2019-0392

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