Developmental plasticity and human health

By Patrick Bateson, D. Barker, T. H. Clutton-Brock, Debal Deb, B. D'udine, Robert A. Foley, Peter D. Gluckman, Keith M. Godfrey, T. Kirkwood, M. Lahr and 5 more. Nature, 2004

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Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes. (2008, background): “In humans, in particular, low growth in utero followed by rapid compensatory growth afterward has been associated with subsequent heart disease, type‐2 diabetes, and hypertension (Bateson et al., 2004).”
Homeostasis, Inflammation, and Disease Susceptibility (2015, neutral): “Consequently, the mechanisms that afford greater adaptability can also create vulnerability to diseases (Bateson et al., 2004).”
An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology (2014, background): “Furthermore, mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance may transmit environmental effects on life history strategies across multiple generations (Bateson et al., 2004; Champagne, 2010).”
Indicators of development as sexually selected traits: the developmental stress hypothesis in context (2011, background): “This review demonstrates that many aspects of the developmental stress hypothesis has found significant empirical support, once again highlighting the importance of the study of behavioral development and the significance of sensitive periods during development in shaping subsequent adult phenotypes”
Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution. (2005, background): “proceeds (i.e. the immediate advantage of phenotypic plasticity) [ 29 ].”
Epigenetics and the biological definition of gene x environment interactions. (2010, background): “Hinde’s (1986) formulation implies an adaptive function for parental effects in preparing the offspring for the environmental demands that are likely to prevail during development and into adulthood (also see Bateson et al., 2004; Gluckman & Hanson, 2004; Meaney, 2001).”
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Implications for the Study of Heredity and Evolution (2009, positive): “The epigenetic aspects of metabolic diseases and their transgenerational effects are also being intensely studied (see Bateson et al. 2004; Gluckman and Hanson 2005; Gluckman et al.”
Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming. (2011, background): “Underlying developmental plasticity is the fundamental premise that the physiology of an individual is driven by the induction of a particular developmental program, which is influenced by the prevailing environment during critical developmental periods (18).”
Cross-cultural, developmental psychology: integrating approaches and key insights (2020, background): “Some have argued, for instance, that experiences in early life, such as adversity, provide a ‘weather forecast’ of environmental conditions in adulthood; thus, it is adaptive for an individual to develop phenotypes that are suited for these types of environmental conditions (Bateson et al., 2004; Ne”
Developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome: prediction, plasticity, and programming. (2005, positive): “(28) propose that for individuals whose early environment has predicted a high level of nutrition in adult life and who develop a large phenotype, the better the postnatal conditions, the better will be their adult health.”
Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease. (2012, background): “Despite the risks of immaturity in newborns, evolution may have selected prolonged post-natal development to facilitate adaptation based on childhood experience-dependent information [55].”
Epigenetic gene promoter methylation at birth is associated with child’s later adiposity (2011, neutral): “023, n = 64 and b =12% [4–20], P = 0.”
Gene-environment interplay and psychopathology: multiple varieties but real effects. (2006, background): “The human feature to which extrapolation of these epigenetic 232 effects is most likely to apply concerns the area of so-called developmental programming (Barker, Eriksson , Forsen, & Osmond, 2002; Bateson et al., 2004; Rutter et al., 2004; Rutter, in press a).”
Neonatal leptin treatment reverses developmental programming. (2005, background): “gramming irreversible in a particular nutritional range (8).”
Sibling competition and cooperation in mammals: challenges, developments and prospects (2007, background): “…the physiology-life history nexus described by Ricklefs and Wikelski (2002) is important, as is the ‘thrifty phenotype’ hypothesis (reviewed in Bateson et al. 2004), which proposes that young growing up under nutritionally limited conditions may be better adapted metabolically to…”
From the Beginning: A Developmental Perspective on Movement and Mobility (2005, background): “In a recent issue of Nature, Bateson and his colleagues (Bateson et al., 2004) raise the possibility that when circumstances change, and food is more abundant, the infant will not be adapted to the plentiful state.”