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Adiposity and Chronic Inflammation in Young Women Predict Inflammation during Normal Pregnancy in the Philippines

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Adiposity and pathogen exposure predict C-reactive protein in Filipino women

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Age at menarche and parity are independently associated with Anti-Müllerian hormone, a marker of ovarian reserve, in Filipino young adult women

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Ankle brachial index (ABI) in a cohort of older women in the Philippines: Prevalence of peripheral artery disease and predictors of ABI

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Atherogenic lipid profiles in Filipino adolescents with low body mass index and low dietary fat intake

scientific article published on September 2003

Behavioral epigenetics

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Biological memories of past environments: epigenetic pathways to health disparities

scientific article published on July 2011

Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

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Birth status, child growth, and adult outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 21 September 2013

Birth weight, postnatal weight gain, and adult body composition in five low and middle income countries

scientific article published on 28 November 2011

Breastfeeding and later psychosocial development in the Philippines

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C-reactive protein response to influenza vaccination as a model of mild inflammatory stimulation in the Philippines

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Characterization of human cortical gene expression in relation to glucose utilization

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Circadian cortisol dynamics across reproductive stages and in relation to breastfeeding in the Philippines

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Coconut oil is associated with a beneficial lipid profile in pre-menopausal women in the Philippines

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Cohort profile: the Cebu longitudinal health and nutrition survey

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Commentary: The evolutionary biology of the paternal age effect on telomere length

scientific article published on 7 March 2013

Comparative insights into the regulation of inflammation: levels and predictors of interleukin 6 and interleukin 10 in young adults in the Philippines

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Cortisol and testosterone in Filipino young adult men: Evidence for co‐regulation of both hormones by fatherhood and relationship status

scientific article published on June 2, 2011

C‐reactive protein by pregnancy and lactational status among Filipino young adult women

scientific article published on November 24, 2012

Delayed paternal age of reproduction in humans is associated with longer telomeres across two generations of descendants

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Depressive symptoms are not associated with inflammation in younger and older adults in the Philippines

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Developmental Changes in the Transcriptome of Human Cerebral Cortex Tissue: Long Noncoding RNA Transcripts

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Developmental Origins of Adult Function and Health: Evolutionary Hypotheses

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Developmental changes in the relationship between leptin and adiposity among Tsimané children and adolescents

scientific article published in July 2008

Developmental energetics, sibling death, and parental instability as predictors of maturational tempo and life history scheduling in males from Cebu, Philippines

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Developmental origins of flatter cortisol rhythms: socioeconomic status and adult cortisol activity

scientific article published on 7 March 2015

Developmental origins of life history: growth, productivity, and reproduction

scientific article published on September 2007

Do environments in infancy moderate the association between stress and inflammation in adulthood? Initial evidence from a birth cohort in the Philippines

scientific article published on August 31, 2012

Do testosterone declines during the transition to marriage and fatherhood relate to men's sexual behavior? Evidence from the Philippines

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Does Cosleeping Contribute to Lower Testosterone Levels in Fathers? Evidence from the Philippines

scientific article published on September 5, 2012

Does a man's testosterone "rebound" as dependent children grow up, or when pairbonds end? A test in Cebu, Philippines

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Dynamic Gene Expression in the Human Cerebral Cortex Distinguishes Children from Adults

scientific article published on May 30, 2012

EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: The Third Epidemiologic Transition

scholarly article by Ronald Barrett et al published 21 October 1998 in Annual Review of Anthropology

Early Homo, plasticity and the extended evolutionary synthesis

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Early developmental exposures shape trade-offs between acquired and innate immunity in humans

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Early life growth and adult telomere length in a Filipino cohort study

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Early life infection, but not breastfeeding, predicts adult blood telomere lengths in the Philippines

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Early origins of health disparities: material deprivation predicts maternal evening cortisol in pregnancy and offspring cortisol reactivity in the first few weeks of life

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Early origins of inflammation: microbial exposures in infancy predict lower levels of C-reactive protein in adulthood

scientific article published on 9 December 2009

Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health

scientific article published on January 2009

Ethnic discrimination predicts poor self-rated health and cortisol in pregnancy: insights from New Zealand

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Evaluating the Indirect Effect of Infant Weight Velocity on Insulin Resistance in Young Adulthood: A Birth Cohort Study From the Philippines

scientific article published on February 11, 2011

Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins

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Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines

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Fetal origins of developmental plasticity: are fetal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?

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Genetic association with lipids in Filipinos: waist circumference modifies an APOA5 effect on triglyceride levels

scientific article published on 10 September 2013

Genome-wide Association with C-Reactive Protein Levels in CLHNS: Evidence for the CRP and HNF1A Loci and their Interaction with Exposure to a Pathogenic Environment

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Genome-wide association study for adiponectin levels in Filipino women identifies CDH13 and a novel uncommon haplotype at KNG1–ADIPOQ

scientific article published on September 27, 2010

Genome-wide association study of homocysteine levels in Filipinos provides evidence for CPS1 in women and a stronger MTHFR effect in young adults

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Germline epigenetic inheritance: Challenges and opportunities for linking human paternal experience with offspring biology and health

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Growth patterns of the heart and kidney suggest inter-organ collaboration in facultative fetal growth

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High prevalence of low HDL-c in the Philippines compared to the US: population differences in associations with diet and BMI.

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High-throughput RNA sequencing reveals structural differences of orthologous brain-expressed genes between western lowland gorillas and humans

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Humans are not cooperative breeders but practice biocultural reproduction

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Improving qPCR telomere length assays: Controlling for well position effects increases statistical power

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Individual differences in developmental plasticity: A role for early androgens?

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Infants thinner at birth exhibit smaller kidneys for their size in late gestation in a sample of fetuses with appropriate growth

scientific article published in May 2002

Inflammatory profiles in the non-pregnant state predict offspring birth weight at Cebu: Evidence for inter-generational effects of low grade inflammation

scientific article published on June 13, 2012

Intergenerational Predictors of Birth Weight in the Philippines: Correlations with Mother’s and Father’s Birth Weight and Test of Maternal Constraint

scientific article published on July 27, 2012

Intergenerational effects of early life nutrition: maternal leg length predicts offspring placental weight and birth weight among women in rural Luzon, Philippines

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

Introduction. Fetal origins of developmental plasticity

scientific article published in January 2005

Leptin in a lean population of Filipino adolescents

scientific article published in April 2007

Lipid profiles in adolescent Filipinos: relation to birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males

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Maternal characteristics associated with milk leptin content in a sample of Filipino women and associations with infant weight for age.

scientific article published on 27 October 2014

Maternal cortisol disproportionately impacts fetal growth in male offspring: evidence from the Philippines

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Maternal height and child growth patterns

scientific article published on 07 March 2013

Maternal metabolic adaptations to pregnancy among young women in Cebu, Philippines

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

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Microbial exposures in infancy predict levels of the immunoregulatory cytokine interleukin‐4 in filipino young adults

scientific article published on February 5, 2012

Modeling fetal adaptation to nutrient restriction: testing the fetal origins hypothesis with a supply-demand model

scientific article published on January 2004

Mothers have lower testosterone than non-mothers: evidence from the Philippines

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New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

scientific article published on 2 December 2012

No association between blood telomere length and longitudinally assessed diet or adiposity in a young adult Filipino population

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals

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Nutrient Signaling: Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Plasticity in Human Life History Strategy

article by Christopher W Kuzawa & Jared M. Bragg published December 2012 in Current Anthropology

Population differences in associations between C-reactive protein concentration and adiposity: comparison of young adults in the Philippines and the United States

scientific article published on 18 February 2009

Population-specific coding variant underlies genome-wide association with adiponectin level

scientific article published on October 18, 2011

Positive antibody response to vaccination in adolescence predicts lower C-reactive protein concentration in young adulthood in the Philippines

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Predictors of breast milk macronutrient composition in Filipino mothers

scientific article published on 21 March 2012

Prenatal smoke exposure alters growth in limb proportions and head shape in the midgestation human fetus

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Preterm delivery as a predictor of diurnal cortisol profiles in adulthood: evidence from Cebu, Philippines

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Progesterone and estrogen responsiveness to father‐toddler interaction

scientific article published on May 4, 2013

Prolactin, fatherhood, and reproductive behavior in human males

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Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution

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Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Afri

scientific article published in 2022

Rapid weight gain after birth predicts life history and reproductive strategy in Filipino males

scientific article published on September 13, 2010

Regulation of inflammation during gestation and birth outcomes: Inflammatory cytokine balance predicts birth weight and length

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Reply to Skoyles: Decline in growth rate, not muscle mass, predicts the human childhood peak in brain metabolism

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

Reproduction predicts shorter telomeres and epigenetic age acceleration among young adult women

Response to Agilli et al.

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Salivary estradiol and testosterone in Filipino men: Diurnal patterns and relationships with adiposity

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity

scientific article published in September 2008

Shopping for explanations

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Short-term changes in fathers' hormones during father–child play: Impacts of paternal attitudes and experience

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Short-term lending: Payday loans as risk factors for anxiety, inflammation and poor health.

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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms at five loci are associated with C-reactive protein levels in a cohort of Filipino young adults

scientific article published on September 22, 2011

Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult diabetes risk in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood

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Society: Don't blame the mothers

scientific article published in August 2014

Substantial variation in qPCR measured mean blood telomere lengths in young men from eleven European countries

scientific article published on 10 January 2011

Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic morphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans

scientific article (publication date: 18 June 2013)

Testing the Protein Leverage Hypothesis in a free-living human population

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

Testosterone, physical activity, and somatic outcomes among Filipino males

scientific article published in August 2010

The biosocial genome? Interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental epigenetics, health and society

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

The evolution of the patterning of human lactation: a comparative perspective

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The origins of the developmental origins hypothesis and the role of postnatal environments: response to Koletzko

scientific article published in September 2005

The paternal age at conception effect on offspring telomere length: mechanistic, comparative and adaptive perspectives

scientific article published in March 2018

The role of testosterone in coordinating male life history strategies: The moderating effects of the androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Timescales of human adaptation: the role of epigenetic processes

scientific article published on April 2011

Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans

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WITHDRAWN: Exploring the links between early life and young adulthood social experiences and men's later life psychobiology as fathers

retracted scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Which environments matter in studies of early life developmental plasticity?

scientific article published in January 2017

Why evolution needs development, and medicine needs evolution

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Worldwide allele frequencies of the human apolipoprotein E gene: climate, local adaptations, and evolutionary history

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