Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans

• Prenatal famine exposure restricts genetic effects on birth weight with implications for metabolic disease risk

  2026 Communications Medicine article Medicine Birth, Development, and Health Open access

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• No indications of weight gain associated DNA methylation changes in patients with anorexia nervosa

  2025 Scientific Reports article Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Open access

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• Genetic analysis of selection bias in a natural experiment: investigating in utero famine effects on elevated body mass index in the Dutch hunger winter families study

  2024 American Journal of Epidemiology article Medicine Birth, Development, and Health Open access

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• Fetal exposure to the Ukraine famine of 1932–1933 and adult type 2 diabetes mellitus

  2024 Science article Medicine Birth, Development, and Health Open access

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• Hyper-physiologic mechanical cues, as an osteoarthritis disease-relevant environmental perturbation, cause a critical shift in set points of methylation at transcriptionally active CpG sites in neo-cartilage organoids

  2024 Clinical Epigenetics article Medicine Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Open access

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• Hyper-physiologic mechanical cues, as an osteoarthritis disease relevant environmental perturbation, cause a critical shift in set-points of methylation at transcriptionally active CpG sites in neo-cartilage organoids

  2023 Research Square preprint Medicine Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Open access

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• Genetic analysis of selection bias in a natural experiment: Investigating in-utero famine effects on elevated body mass index in the Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study

  2023 medRxiv preprint Medicine Birth, Development, and Health Open access

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• Mesenchymal stromal cells as a tool to unravel the developmental origins of disease

  2022 Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism review Medicine Birth, Development, and Health Open access

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• There is not much to mediate [yet] when it comes to diet and depression

  2021 Molecular Psychiatry article Medicine Nutritional Studies and Diet

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• Identical twins carry a persistent epigenetic signature of early genome programming

  2021 Nature Communications article Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Open access

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• Cerebral Palsy and Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Complicated Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy

  2021 Springer eBooks book-chapter Medicine Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy

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• Epigenomics of being bullied: changes in DNA methylation following bullying exposure

  2020 Epigenetics article Psychology Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression Open access

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