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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Genes and environments, development and time.

W Thomas Boyce, Marla B Sokolowski, Gene E Robinson

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract read
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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06357663 (Effect of Subtle Energy Transmission and Tao Calligraphy Mindfulness Practice on Telomere Length in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes A Follow-up Pilot Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
37.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06357663 naterminatednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Effect of Subtle Energy Transmission and Tao Calligraphy Mindfulness Practice on Telomere Length in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes A Follow-up Pilot Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorSha Research FoundationRan2023 to 2025Enrolled12ConditionsTelomere Length, Quality of LifeArmsMindfulness practice with Calligraphy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Polygenic risk meets early trauma: toward a neuropsychodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026
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  18. Charting the Shift: Age as a Moderator of the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Reading.Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading · 2025
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

W Thomas BoyceDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0002-6869-418X
Marla B SokolowskiProgram in Child and Brain Development, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada; marla.sokolowski@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-7462-8007
Gene E RobinsonProgram in Child and Brain Development, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4828-4068
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A now substantial body of science implicates a dynamic interplay between genetic and environmental variation in the development of individual differences in behavior and health. Such outcomes are affected by molecular, often epigenetic, processes involving gene-environment (G-E) interplay that can influence gene expression. Early environments with exposures to poverty, chronic adversities, and acutely stressful events have been linked to maladaptive development and compromised health and behavior. Genetic differences can impart either enhanced or blunted susceptibility to the effects of such pathogenic environments. However, largely missing from present discourse regarding G-E interplay is the role of time, a "third factor" guiding the emergence of complex developmental endpoints across different scales of time. Trajectories of development increasingly appear best accounted for by a complex, dynamic interchange among the highly linked elements of genes, contexts, and time at multiple scales, including neurobiological (minutes to milliseconds), genomic (hours to minutes), developmental (years and months), and evolutionary (centuries and millennia) time. This special issue of PNAS thus explores time and timing among G-E transactions: The importance of timing and timescales in plasticity and critical periods of brain development; epigenetics and the molecular underpinnings of biologically embedded experience; the encoding of experience across time and biological levels of organization; and gene-regulatory networks in behavior and development and their linkages to neuronal networks. Taken together, the collection of papers offers perspectives on how G-E interplay operates contingently within and against a backdrop of time and timescales.

Indexed as

Gene-Environment InteractionAnimalsBiological EvolutionEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression RegulationHumansTimebiological embedding of experiencecritical periodsgene–environment interplaygene regulationtiming

Identifiers

PMID32967067
PMCPMC7519332
OpenAlexW3089213722

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