2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.26.586786
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Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence

Muna Aikins,
Yayouk Willems,
Colter Mitchell
et al.

Abstract: Marginalization due to structural racism may confer an increased risk for aging-related diseases in part via effects on peoples mental health. Here we leverage a prospective birth cohort study to examine whether the emergence of racial disparities in mental health and DNA-methylation measures of biological aging (i.e., DunedinPACE, GrimAge Acceleration, PhenoAge Acceleration) are linked across childhood and adolescence. We further consider to what extent racial disparities are statistically accounted for by pe… Show more

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