Early life events and their consequences for later disease: A life history and evolutionary perspective

By Peter D. Gluckman, Mark A. Hanson, Alan Beedle. American Journal of Human Biology, 2007

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Subfields: Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, neutral): “In a rat model examining interactions among prenatal and early postnatal environmental exposures, both fetal undernutrition and postnatal leptin administration were shown to induce persistent changes in DNA methylation and expression of hepatic genes (Gluckman et al., 2007c).”
Human nature and cognitive–developmental niche construction (2010, background): “(Gluckman et al. 2007, 16) Kim Sterelny also argues in favor for the adaptiveness of plasticity and constructed a scenario in which such plasticity may have evolved in humans.”
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2010, neutral): “Conditional adaptation, which is closely related to the concept of a predictive adaptive response (e.g., Gluckman et al., 2007), is guided by both external environmental factors (e.g., predation pressures, quality of parental investment, seasonal change, and diet) and indicators of the individual’s…”
Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming. (2011, background): “matched to an “evolutionarily novel” world (20, 23).”
Childhood stunting: a global perspective (2016, background): “weight gain, particularly after the age of 2–3 years among individuals born small at birth, is thought to lead to a particularly high risk of chronic disease in later life (Gluckman et al. 2007).”
Contextualising complementary feeding in a broader framework for stunting prevention. (2013, background): “While it is unclear whether stunting may be a risk factor for obesity per se, rapid weight gain, particularly after the age of 2–3 years among individuals born small at birth, is thought to lead to a particularly high risk of chronic disease in later life (Gluckman et al. 2007).”
11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases: intracellular gate-keepers of tissue glucocorticoid action. (2013, background): “It has been suggested that when there is a mismatch between prenatal “predictions” of the postnatal environment and its reality that the offspring is placed at a disadvantage, largely of disorders of the postreproductive age (233).”
Epigenetic mechanisms that underpin metabolic and cardiovascular diseases (2009, background): “We have discussed elsewhere how environmental cues during early life in mammals can lead to adaptive and integrated changes that relate to the anticipated adult environment, but may also give rise to disease if the environment changes or the prediction is inaccurate, which causes a mismatch between ”