Can a mother’s stress impact children’s disease development? Environmental health researcher says there is a connection between trauma and DNA mutation — ScienceDaily

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Stress on an expectant mother could affect her baby’s chance of developing disease — perhaps even over the course of the child’s life, UC researchers have found. Psychosocial factors creating stress — such as lack of social support, loneliness, marriage status or bereavement — may be mutating their child’s mitochondrial […]