Epigenetic Inheritance of Family Trauma | MindLAB
Epigenetic Inheritance of Family Trauma: How Your Parents’ Stress Lives in Your DNA Epigenetic inheritance of family trauma is the biological mechanism by which a parent’s or grandparent’s stress exposure alters which of their children’s genes get expressed — without changing the underlying DNA sequence. Methylation marks on NR3C1 and FKBP5 carry an HPA-axis signature across generations, and recent human cohorts have now detected that signature three generations out, long before the affected child is conscious of any family history. ...
